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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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The Confessions follow-up will be Madonna's first album since 2019's Madame X, and her 15th overall.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

The city was the one-time home of Augustine, whose autobiographical "Confessions" is a seminal work within the Christian tradition.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Confessions of double agents and tips for new spies have been released as part of a tranche of recently-declassified documents from MI5.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 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

St. Augustine—who in his Confessions writes, “I came to the fields and spacious palaces of memory”—gave memory the honor of being one of the three faculties of the soul.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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