There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for s…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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