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Quotation from Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I mean to present my fellow-mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man shall be myself”
Confessions, Book I, opening, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903)
The famous declaration of the project; a leading vertical bar in the source text is omitted.
Citation: "I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I mean to present my fellow-mortals with a man in all the integrity of nature; and this man shall be myself" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book I, opening, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903). (id rousseaus-confessions-q1)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
