It is quite true that I wrote this romance in a state of most feverish ecstasy, but they were wrong in… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is quite true that I wrote this romance in a state of most feverish ecstasy, but they were wrong in thinking that it had needed real objects to produce this condition; they were far from understanding to what an extent I am capable of being inflamed by beings of the imagination.

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