As soon as anyone came – whether man or woman, it did not matter which – I left the room grumbling, being… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

As soon as anyone came – whether man or woman, it did not matter which – I left the room grumbling, being unable to remain with her in the presence of a third party. I counted the minutes in her ante-room, cursing these eternal visitors a thousand times, and unable to imagine how it was that they had so much, because I myself had still more, to say.

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