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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Age: 66 †
Born: 1712
Born: June 28
Died: 1778
Died: July 2
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The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
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