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Confessions, says that an autobiographer always makes himself the hero of his own novel, and cannot help idealizing, even if he would. But the weak point of all sentimentalists is that they always have been, and always continue under every conceivable circumstance to be, their own ideals, whether they are writing their own lives or no. Rousseau opens his book with the statement:
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I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe myself unlike any that exists. If I am not worth more, at least I am different.