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Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Novel · Epistolary novel

Should I live for centuries, the sweet period of my youth would not be reborn, nor effaced from my memory.

In the original French

Dusse-je vivre des siecles entiers, le doux temps de ma jeunesse ne peut ni renaitre pour moi, ni s'effacer de mon souvenir.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1761
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Topic
Remembering one's youthLooking backYouth
Genre
Epistolary novel
Medium
Novel
Time
1761
Person
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Provenance
Current citation
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Julie, or the New Heloise, translated by Philip Stewart and Jean Vache. Dartmouth College Press, 1997, pt. 6, letter 7.
Original citation
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Lettres de Deux Amans, habitans d'une petite Ville au pied des Alpes [Letters from two lovers, living in a small town at the foot of the Alps]. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1761, pt. 6, letter 7.

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