One may judge what such confessions have cost me, from the fact that, during the whole course of my life, I… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

One may judge what such confessions have cost me, from the fact that, during the whole course of my life, I have never dared to declare my folly to those whom I loved with the frenzy of a passion which deprived me of sight and hearing, which robbed me of my senses and caused me to tremble all over with a convulsive movement.

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