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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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Thus began a short, tumultuous career in left-wing politics, chronicled in “Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative,” published next week.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

But for her 15th album, she's revisiting her 10th: 2005's Confessions on a Dance Floor.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Palmer and Joao Pedro, who were left out of the England and Brazil World Cup squads respectively, are among the high-profile names included in Confessions II - The Film.

From BBC Jun. 9, 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

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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