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I loved the segment on money! Like the idea of hating it but being stingy about it is interesting - it allowing us to have freedom while we have it and enslaving us in the process of obtaining or searching for it. Seem pretty obvious nowadays but my guy was taking about this during the enlightenment… Other than that, the part on him being situationally passionate but overall very timid was, once again, relatable

What Rousseau is doing, so far as I perceive this magnificent a piece of autographical work, is excellent, fragile, raw, witty, philosophical, psychological---and definitely a thriller of self-reflection.
"I am commencing an undertaking, hitherto without precedent, and which will never find an imitator. I desire to set before my fellows the likeness of a man in all truth of nature, and that man myself."
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The girl for whom he felt the more tender kind of love visited him in Geneva just for him to find out a while later that she had gone there to buy a wedding dress……..

Two kinds of romantic love: brotherly and passionate

two pages a day keeps the doctor away

I have resumed a writing project so the time I expect to devote to 'pleasure' reading will diminish-- very much enjoying this but its going to take a while!

Discoveries so far: he is a masochist but contained (?) the only time he actualised his sexual fantasies was with a girl his age when he was young but never again. A passage i thought was interesting was when he said he remained pure because he never gave into ravenous sensuality… but his fantasies don’t taint his purity?? idk it was a new perspective on the sexual purity subject for me