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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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Next up came her podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025

Lizzie, who bought The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, says it is "very moving" for her book to have an inscription.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025

Trainum has since retired and authored his own book: “How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

I want to close with some words from Daniel Ellsberg’s book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner," summing up the preparations for nuclear war.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2024

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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