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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 first episode of Confessions of a Killer will be broadcast on Tuesday 20 January on BBC One NI at 21:00 GMT, and then on BBC Two on Thursday 22 January at 23:05 GMT.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

Gaga's progenitor, Madonna, is also back in the studio with her Confessions On A Dancefloor partner Stuart Price; while the UK's biggest rapper, Central Cee, is gearing up to release his debut album in January.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024

Blanchard initially met Moore, whose father is known as the Happy Face Killer, when she executive produced the Lifetime docuseries called “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 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

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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