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    <body><![CDATA[سفسطه‌ای که گمراهم کرد سفسطه‌ی اغلب مردم است؛ مردمی که هنگامی که دیگر برای به کار بردن قدرت بسیار دیر شده است، از نداشتن آن شکوه دارند. پرهیزکاری تنها بر اثر خطاکار ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53097708">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although held up as a shining example of Romanticism (primarily for Rousseau's focus on himself), Confessions is utterly unpalatable even in this age of egotism. His repetitive use of the word 'I' reminds one of a style guide's sidebar showing what never to do.<br/><br/>Being exposed to this work ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56685658">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA['No one can write a man's life except himself.'   In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization.  In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt.  The book vividly illustrates the mixture of moods and motives that underlie the writing of autobiography: defiance and vulnerability, self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment.  Above all, Confessions is Rousseau's search, through every resource of language, to convey what he despairs of putting into words: the personal quality of one's own existence.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[یادش به خیر جوانی- این کتاب را با قطع جیبی و فکر کنم در دو جلد . خوانده ام و بسیار لذت برده ام. قابل توصیه است.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[روسو معتقد است که انسان طبیعتا خوب است و براساس حالت طبیعی، بدی کردن او غیرممکن است.<br/>کتاب اعترافات این مدعای او را به اثبات می رساند که شرایط بد<br/>جامعه تمامی انسا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30759418">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazingly, Rousseau's fetish for being spanked and exposing himself in alleyways are not the most intriguing things in this book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good account of Rousseau's life, but it becomes a little tedious at the end when he obsesses about justifying to the reader why the Paris gossip about him is full of lies and treachery.  There are some great passages though, including small pieces of philosophy that are beautifully expressed....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9605595">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is really interesting.  His life is really thrilling and the way he tells story of his lives, you can almost see why he cam up with and believed many of his theories. I think it's cool.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't stand this guy.  self-centered, egotistical wanker]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't finish this book.  I was going to force myself, but after getting more than halfway through the 640+ pages I realized that it ain't getting better.  I understand why this is an important book, the first true autobiography, etc.  But M. Rousseau is an ass, a whiner and appears to be deluded w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15258226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very inspiring.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[واقعا غوغا می کنه! شاید هم من؟! هر چیزی رو که میگه واقعا واسم قابل فهمه! با اینکه سه چهار قرن از زندگیش میگذره ولی خیلی قابل فهمه. دفتر اول، صفحه ی اولش واقعا زیباست! منو...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23791746">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This high rating comes about by virtue of the fact that he focuses on his faults, of which there were many, as well as his accomplishmnets.  In fact he comes across as being down right unlikeable.  But he reveals himself so that it is refreshing and astounding.  For example, he tells of flashing wom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16560362">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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