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Confessions

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  1. The title of two well-known autobiographies: that of Augustine from the fourth century, describing his early years and his conversion to Christianity, and that of the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.


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In his 2023 memoir Confessions, Stourton revealed he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer nearly a decade earlier.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

A much-rumoured Kylie duet doesn't appear on Confessions II, but this would have been the perfect track for it; all brightness and light, with a loved-up lyric about a "movie star with deep blue eyes".

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

The revelations came in an almost hour-long discussion about her forthcoming album, Confessions II, which finds the pop star in her natural habitat of the dancefloor.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Guy de la Bédoyère’s “The Confessions of Samuel Pepys” is effectively a supplement to the superlative complete edition made by Robert Latham and William Matthews and published in 11 volumes between 1970 and 1983.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

It is true that in high school I read Augustine’s Confessions, but that extraordinary autobiography did not prompt my imitation.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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