I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent, and which, once complete, will have no imitator. My purpose is to display to my kind a portrait in every way true to nature, and the man I shall portray will be myself. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes)

I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent, and which, once complete, will have no imitator. My purpose is to display to my kind a portrait in every way true to nature, and the man I shall portray will be myself.[Je forme une entreprise qui n’eut jamais d’exemple, et qui n’aura point d’imitateur. Je veux montrer à mes semblables un homme dans toute la vérité de la nature; et cet homme, ce sera moi.]

Source:Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782), (Penguin Books, ed. 1963), Part I, Book I, Page 17
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