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Confessions

Saint Augustine

Form
Form Autobiography
Year
Year 400 CE
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 450

A restless teacher of rhetoric retraces his own life, the stolen pears, the mistresses, the ambition, to work out how he fought God for thirty years and lost.

Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Confessions, Saint Augustine

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