""So I am now alone on the earth no brother, no neighbour no friend, without any companion except myself"." "You have to read this text out loud" "You have to hear the voice and ask:" "Who is speaking?" "Roussseau's voice is all the more powerful because he writes without a pause, without a breath." "You have to read him as he thought, in a single stroke." "Would you read him for us, please?" ""So I am now alone on the earth, no brother, no neighbour no friend, without any companion except myself"." "Yes." "Thank you." "You have to feel the text, hear the voice." "Please." ""So I am now alone on the earth, no brother, no neighbour no friend, without any companion except myself"." ""The most sociable, the most loving of men was banned"." "Thank you." "Can you live apart from society?" "If you don't have a life!" "The real question should be:" "Can you live apart from nature and be happy?" "I'll let you think that over." "Is he there?" "Now you're picking my stories?" " Can we talk about this later?" " No." "Munsch wants us to do something about Rousseau's 300th birthday." "He wants a special broadcast." " Are you going to write me up?" " If you get called on the carpet, I can't perfor miracles." "Your quota will be cut back." "It's happening to everyone." "It has nothing to do with my broadcast." "Don't make this harder for me." "Turn out something original." "That'll make" " Management happy." " And if I refuse?" "Ass hole!" "May I have the bill, please?" "Diderot." "Diderot." "You must be hungry." "Come, Diderot." "Here, kitty." "You were hungry!" "Please explain to me again the reason for your visit." "Ican show you more easily." " Will this take long?" " No." "Lay it down here." "Do you know who Rousseau was?" "He wrote a book on raising kids and then abandoned them." "I don't get it!" "Not my type." "A football player?" "A stupid idea, to ask children." "Just wait." "There he is." "Rousseau had faith in mankind." "No." "If they were less jealous, they would be happier." "That's enough, kid." "He knew that the happiness of mankind..." " depended upon his return to nature." " Untrue." "The return to nature is impossible." "What do you know about it?" "Shut up and get out of here!" "He is too young." "Such an understanding requires years of study." "He is either a genius or he's repeating what he learned someplace." "I tend to the second hypothesis." "Professor, did you see his eyes?" "Shouldn't we ask him how he knows that?" "Mrs. Mercier, I don't have a television set." "I don't know what you have in mind for this child." "But you should know that" "Rousseau's theories are complex and special." "In upcoming seminars they will be hotly debated." "I can be of no help to you." "Good." "You aren't interested." "We only wanted to present Rousseau's ideas in prime time to a broad audience." "I will certainly be able to find other experts on Rousseau." "No, wait." "Tomorrow, after my lecture, at 10:30." "How did you come to dedicate your life to Rousseau?" "To dedicate one's life to a dead man!" "Watch the road, please." ""I travelled the world over and came to Confignon," "In Savoy not far from Geneva"." "Good day." "Good day." " Good day." " Marie Mercier" "Yes, I know." "I gave an interview here two days ago and I asked your son if he knew Rousseau." "His answer was astonishing." "Tom says amazing things all the time." "He is very... very different." "May we see him?" "Yes, certainly." "But I must unfortunately keep working." "He must be in his room." " Thank you, Mr. Dubois." " Sir." "You're finally home?" "Do your chores!" "Tom?" "He isn't there." "Hello, Tom." "We only wanted to ask you a question." "Do you remember your answer to my question about Rousseau?" "Get out of my room!" "Get out!" "Men believe what they want to." "Nobody will talk them out of believing that he knows Rousseau without having studied his work." "These people want to esape the day-to-day and such stories help them do that." "They especially want to believe them when they're not true." "Tell the Rousseau's life story." "It's full of surprises." "Do you know why he wrote the Confessions?" "No." "After the censoring of Emile and The Social Contract he was attacked on all sides." "His books were burned." "From morning to night he was a hated because he had devoted his entire life to truth." "All the police wanted to arrest him." "He began the first book of The Confessions whose first words have gone down in history." ""I shape an enterprise which has had no antecedents and which will never have any imitators." "I wish to show my contemporaries a man in all the truth of nature." "And this man will be me"." "Imagine the courage it took to write that!" "Come, when I approached him he pulled back, as though he were afraid of me." "You should speak to him." "Come on!" "It's your story, not mine." "Please, come." "I beg you." "Come!" "My name is Auguste." "Everybody calls me Professor Stohler." "But you can call me Auguste." "You're Tom, I know." " Do you know why I'm here?" " No" "Well, I don't either." "Can I ask you a few questions?" "What does nature mean for you?" "It's the things that haven't been touched by man." "Is man a part of nature?" "That's kind of the way it goes." "Oh, come on, come on, explain yourself!" "Man makes things that are a part of nature" " but he has undone nature." " Ah, he has transformed nature." "That's a good argument." "He spoke about nature about the signs in nature, that everything is there." "All you have to do is open your eyes, look to better understand the truth of mankind." "That the animals knew everything when they were born while men must learn everything." "How does he know all that?" "He won't say." "It all seems to come from within." " More?" " No, that's enough." "Thanks, papa." "You shouldn't do this story." "It's going great." "You don't have to please me, but yourself." "It's really OK, papa." "Do you want to celebrate your birthday?" "Only with Therese." "Then we'll do something nice with Therese." "Bon Appetit." "Time to sleep, big guy." "Papa?" "Would you rather have another son than me?" "Of course not!" "So, sleep good." "Pleasant dreams." " Are you taking your medicine?" " Yes." "How are you tolerating them?" "Fine." "You should think about the operation." "Really." "Yes." "We'll see." "You've already had a heart attack." " Take your betablocker." " I will." " Good bye, doctor." " Good bye." "You could say hello to the lady." "Good day, Tom." "Please forgive the way that I barged into your room." "I wouldn't have liked that either." "I'll leave you two alone." "I have a present." "My brother once had a flesh eating plant." "The flies are from my office." "I'm the world champion fly catcher." "I can show you!" " Should I?" " Tom, put the bicycle away!" "Thanks for the flies." "When was he born?" "1912." "Are you doing that deliberately?" "He was born in 1712." "It isn't complicated!" "In 2012 his 300th birthday will be celebrated." "How old would he be?" "Come on, I'm not a baby." "So." "Rousseau was born June 28, 1712 in the Grande Rue in Geneva." "His mother died when he was born." "What was his father's profession?" "Watch maker," "His father was a watch maker." "No, no, be careful!" "Yes, yes!" "I have to learn about Rousseau for the interview." " Stop!" " Let's look inside!" "We're off!" "What idiots." "Today we're talking about a man who represented his epoch and wal called Jean Jacques Rousseau." "Does anybody know who Rousseau was?" "He was a philosopher from Geneva." " Right, Kelly!" "Yes, Gaspard?" " He wrote" ""The Confections"." "No!" "He didn't write "The Confections", but "The Confessions"." "Does anybody know what a Confession is?" "That's when you've been naughty and Father Antoine forgives you." "Yes." "Tom?" "At the end of his life Rousseau wanted to write down his memories." "Why do you think Rousseau wanted to tell the story of his life?" "Tom?" "Go to your secod period class." "Don't make a commotion!" "What's wrong, Tom?" "Didn't you want to speak in front of the others?" " They make fun of me." " They're not here now." "Only us." "I know you could have answered." "He wanted to tell the truth." "He didn't want to keep it to himself." "That woul've been stupid." "He thought he could help people." "How do you know that?" "Who told you?" "Nobody." "So how do you know?" "Cut, cut." "Why are they making a film abot him?" "Cause he's a whore!" "Hey, Einstein!" "He helped me get over her death." "How old was he?" "Scarcely one year." "Like a little lighthouse in the night he shined out happiness." "He understood instinctively how to give me comfort." "Then his first "papa" and his shining eyes, he had his mother's eyes." "He started speaking very early." "In the flood of his words, pearls shone out, truths from the mouth of a child." "Was he different from other children?" "Different..." "That's hard to say, but..." "But he was more sensitive." "As Tom came into contact with others, did he shut himself off?" "Yes." "When he went to school it seemed to me" "that his teacher kept coming to me to say that he didn't act like the others." "Was that difficult?" "I was actually happy that he wasn't like the others." "He lived in his own world." "Gradually I came to fear that he was unfortunate to to an outsider." "An outsider." "Were you the one who taught him all the things he knows about Rousseau?" "No." "No, no." "Diderot?" "Diderot?" "Di..." "Diderot..." "Tom, it's already late." " Papa?" " Yes?" "Do I have to take part in this TV show?" "No." "But we have already agreed." "Don't you want to show off what a terrific kid you are?" "But if it starts to make you unhappy, we can pull out." "Victor calls me Einstein." "Don't pay attention to him!" "He's only jealous." "I bet that a lot of others want to be your friend." "Don't get upset about Victor." "Next time, you just give him a good bop, OK?" "At the right moment" "Pow!" "Right in the teeth!" "All set?" "You're sad that I'm not like the others." "I only want you to be happy." "I only want you to be happy." "Happy." "What's wrong?" "They want to cancel my broadcast." "Looks like I'm off the roster." "And I don't want to make any of these things about Rousseau." "Then don't make them." "But I have to." " You don't understand?" " What's not to understand?" "Listen I have to get up early tomorrow." "I'm groggy." "We can live without all that." "Not me." "They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for Rousseau." "She's jealous." "I am not." "It's just a bit much for a guy who hated women." "You're getting all worked up!" "You forget the female characters that he created." "La nouvelle Heloise, Julie..." "Anybody who wrote that women are only here to please men is extreely questionable." "Even if he put them in his love stories." "You have to put that into the context of the 18th century." "The representation of woman as a weak being corresponds to the hierarchical system of the epoch." "Today's society demands that men be competitive in all their endeavors." "Men are afraid of not being able to measure up." "Would not a clinging woman restrict a man in the expression of his masculinity?" "He was just a macho of his type." "Just name me one good example of that type!" "Just one!" "Are you OK, Auguste?" "Why do you have to get him so worked up?" "If you really want to get him going why don't you bring up Voltaire too?" " Any apple pie today?" " Yes!" " Apple pie for you!" " Auguste, do you want dessert?" "No, no, thank you." " Coffee?" " Yes, please." "Must be one of your adimirers!" "Yes?" "Can you help me?" "I'm getting nowhere with the kids." "Please talk to Tom." "He only listens to you." " Can we film in your office?" " No." " Please, Auguste." " No, it's impossible." "Please don't push." " Have you read them all?" " Oh, yes." "I've even read several twice." "What will happen to all the one's you've read when you're dead?" "I'll leave them to my students who will then leave them to others." "And so forth..." "Good." "You may sit down." "Professor?" "You sit there." "Tom, sit next to him." "I guess that I'm not supposed to look in the camera?" "No." "Look at Tom." "Before we begin," "I would like to show you something." "Just watch the screen." "He wanted to tell the truth." "He didn't want to keep it to himself." "That would've been stupid." "He wanted to help people." "Professor..." "What Tom says is interesting, but you have to be careful." "It takes an entire lifetime to understand Rousseau." "What Tom says with his 10 years sounds right, but one must not forget what the totality of Rousseau represents." "Many of this ideas do not have a singlle interpretation." "A 10 year old child who certainly is very bring and intelligent to use him to make Rousseau's ideas understandable that..." "Why do we need Rousseau today?" "Rousseau is monumental." "His is a philosophy of life." "We must read, indeed re-read him in order to find salvation for today's society." "He knew that the salvation of mankind depends upon respect for nature." "He was the first to stigmatize consumerism and speculation." "But he was mistakenn." "Why do you say he was mistaken?" "He wanted man to be good." " But man isn't good." " He had confidence in mankind" " He was wrong." " How so?" "He believed basically that man by nature is not greedy, vicious, evil, but that he becomes so when he comes into contact with society." "He thought man to be by nature innocent." "And because he had faith in mankind he hoped to make him better." "Yeah, but man is surrounded by evil." "He can't do anything about it." "Do you have children?" "A daughter." "She must be your age now." "I don't want to talk about her." "You never stop asking questions." "You're always the journalist." " Go ahead." " I'm sorry." " Hello?" " Marie, it's me." "I wanted to tell you that Denis can't make it." "Are you coming home?" "|- yes." "I'm with the professor." "Invite him to dinner!" "Then I'll finally meet the guy my wife's been spending all her time with." "I'll see." "Do you have anything planned for tonight?" "No, not really, no." "Then accept my invitation." "It would make me very happy." "That's very kind of you, but I have to get up early." "I'll drive you back." "That's all fine and dandy, but ideas don't fill your stomach." "You have to make sure you have enough to eat." "A self-made man!" "Yeah, I knew" "I had to earn money in order to live in a better world." "In my milieu, there's no place for thinkers." "It will surprise you, but just like you I come from modest circumstances." "My father was a train conductor." "But unlike you I never thought that money makes us happy." "It creates inequality." "Look around you." "It didn't used to be as bad as today." "How can one be happy when bankers take millions of euros, dollalrs, or Swiss franks and distribute them as bonds when others have nothing to live on?" "During my childhood we didn't use to have any money, so I know how much it contribuetes to happiness." "That depends on how it's used, how it's distributed." "That's easy- through consumption." "If I consume others earn." "These others can then consume, etc." "Consumption rules the world." "You can't deny it." "I can't nourish people with ideas." "Don't misunderstand me." "All these ideas, as you say, give people hope not to be overwhelmed by this system." "So like Rousseau you can eat without money?" "Vincent knows how to make a good speech." "He can sell people anything that they don't need." "You know, Rousseau has always had his critics." "I see him here, tonight, under us laughting, saying to himself that despite these jokes that conceal our longing we aren't happy." "His eyes would sparkle from the realization that sooner or later we all come to realize that." "Don't you think so?" "I'm tired." "Please don't disturb yourselves." " I'll drive you home." " No, no." "Diderot?" "Diderot?" "Diderot?" "He's interesting." "But he doesn't have both of his feet on the ground." "No?" "I teach so that students can come to understand that they become more free the more independently they think." "A wolf does not permit hemself to be dressed up." "But being dressed up makes us more human." "Then he's no longer a wolf and unhappy." "Like a child who's no longer a child." "May we stop please?" "Nobody will believe this." " What we've filmed proves it." " Proves what?" "I don't believe in miracles, Marie." "Your world is too far from mine." "I'm tired." "This has gone on long enough." "You don't believe?" "I don't know how to say it, but you're wrong." "Rousseau wanted to move people's hearts more than their reason." "Julie here." "I can't join you." "I'm leaving again tomorrow." "I really wanted to see you." "I teach so that students can come to understand that they become more free the more independently they think." "A wolf does not permit hemself to be dressed up." "But being dressed up makes us more human." "Then he's no longer a wolf and unhappy." "Like a child who's no longer a child." "May we stop please?" "You don't believe?" "I don't know how to say it, but you're wrong." "Rousseau wanted to move people's hearts more than their reason." " Where are we going?" " Wait!" "I don't like playing secret games!" "I'm not going any further!" "I'll show you my paradise." "I can't get home late." "Don't worry!" " What's that?" " Squirrel tracks!" "Must be acorns." "A mother a child." "Are you coming?" "Tom, I have to tell you something." "Mother doesn't want me to play with you any more." "She says that you aren't normal." "It's not true!" "Tom!" "Professor," "Your mail." " Nothing special." " Thanks." " Everything alright today?" " Yes, thank you." ""Man is born free but is everywhere in chains"." "To what thoughts does that inspire you?" "Society as a prison." "In order to live in society, one must control others." "Yes." "Man is legally free but in fact enslaved." "Beast and man are often distinguished by the fact that man is free." "In society nonetheless is man less free." "Therefore freedom is an illusion, an ideal unobtainable in reality." "Rousseau thought that it could be." "I think as he did, that in order to obtain it a truly moral courage is necessary," "and deep, deep within oneself a just and sincere conscience." "Is not this courage of which you speak simply an emotional artifact?" "How does one know that it really exists?" "If I wish to kill somebody, is that a just thought just because I've experienced it emotionally?" "Freedom is a very... difficult thing." "Moral courage too." "Emotion in and off itself stands above the state, above society." "And Rousseau..." "Professor?" "Sorry, I was thinking of freedom, of the price that one has to pay in order to be free, of what one sometimes has to sacrifice." "Hello?" "It's your father." "If you're not free for lunch, be sure to call me." "Again, it's father." "Cut it out!" " What's going on?" " Dubois started it!" "Both in my office." "For two people today." "Thank you." "Julie here." "I can't make it." "Sorry." "A friend of mine runs a school in Lausanne." "Every year she accepts gifted children." "A school like our hampers his development." "He can not stay here." "It's for the best." "Think about it." "But not too long." "Enrolment period is almost up." "Tom." "It's a chance." "When will I be able to come home?" "You'll sleep there." "You'll have your own room, your own friends, and you'll come home on weekends." "Nobody will tease you for being different." "Tom, I didn't mean it that way!" "He helped me get over her death." "Like a little lighthouse in the night he shined out happiness." "He knew instinctively how to give me courage." "Then his first "papa"..." "What's wrong with you?" "Nothing." "Don't pressure me." "What's happened to the former get-up-and-go Marie?" "Maybe she's changed." "Telephone call for you!" "You can take it here." "Yes?" "I've been trying since yesterday morning to reach you." "He's enrolling him in a school for gifted children." " Who's "he"?" " His father!" "It's for the best." "They've finally taken the totality into consideration." "Before he met you, he was doing fine." "Perhaps he'll find his place in this school." "Maybe the intellectual work will stimulate him." "You haven't looked at the DVD yet." "Do it, then you'll understand." "May I watch this on your computer?" "I don't know how to say it, but you're wrong." "Rousseau wanted to move people's hearts more than their reason." "Taxi!" "Taxi!" "Professor?" "Professor, are you alright?" "Professor?" "Professor?" "Mr. Stohler, everything is fine." "You're in the hospital." "What do you want?" "To get out of here." "I'm leaving." "You're not asleep?" "Go to sleep." "We have to leave early." "Good night, honeybunch." "Good night, mama." "I hate it when she calls me "honeybunch"." "It used to be my nickname." "What did your father call you?" "Don't talk about him." "I hate him." "I'm taking off." "I'm not going to his school." "Where are you going?" "Our vacation." "I still have time." "When are you coming back?" "When school begins." "Write to me?" "Yeah." "Promise." "I'll miss you." "Don't peek until I'm gone." "I love you." "for my whole" "life" "Good morning." "How are you?" "Could you please open the curtains?" "Thank you." "I'll bring your breakfast." "No." "I'd rather rest." " You have to eat." " I'm not hungry." "Good." "Then rest." "I'll come back later." "Therese, hurry up!" "Where's the man from room 15?" "Do you regret things that you have done or haven't done in your life?" " Can I ask you something?" " Of course." "Drive really, really fast!" "Good day." "If you're trying to convince me to keep him at home you're wasting your time." "No." "I only want to speak with Tom." " Is everything alright?" " Yes." " May I come in?" " He isn't here." "He's by the river." "He's there all day long." "Thank you." "You'll find him there." "Your father told me that you're here." "It's a long way!" "Oh, thank you." "Thanks." "You were right." "Thank you." "Sorry." "I have to learn how to turn it off." "You can decide what you consider important." " To us!" " To us!" "Sometimes I miss her." "But that's the way life is." "Is your mother still alive?" "Yes." "Do you see her often?" "No." "Why not?" "I don't know." "No time?" "Do you have any children?" "No." "Do you want to?" "I can't have any." "I'd like to have some later with Therese!" " Are you married?" " Yes." "How's the story going?" "You don't seem to be having any fun with it." "No." ""No"?" "I've intruded in his life." "Besides, I've decided that I'm not so attached" "to my career." "I can't go on." "If I may repeat myself, you can always choose." "Without you and your story I never woud have met Tom." "How can I thank you?" "Convince Tom's father not to change schools." "He's happy here." " Will you stay here?" " Yes." "Are you sure?" "Quite sure!" "Good bye, Auguste." "Good bye." "What's wrong?" "You're not saying anything." "I'm not happy." "What do you mean?" "My life, everything, I don't like it." "I'm not happy." "And since when?" "For a long time, Vincent." "Do you want to leave me?" "I don't know." "I don't know if you have anything to do with it." "I have to know if the woman I once was is still in me." "Do you understand?" "Rousseau leaves us a strong and wise kind of freedom and a strong and wise kind of solidarity." "I don't get it." "How am I supposed to sell this to managment?" "You're throwing this in my face." "I won't change a single frame." "I've done my work without taking our viewers for idiots and without betraying the child." "If you want to fire me..." "Auguste?" "Auguste?" "I'll be right down!" "Brilliant flowers," "Glory of the meadows, refreshing shade, brooks, copses, greenery, come," "purify my imagination tarnished by all these hideous objects." "My soul is dead to the world's great causes and can no longer react to anything except to sensation." "I only have feelings, and it is only through these that pain or pleasure can reach me." "I do not search for instruction." "It is too late." "Besides I've never seen that knowledge contributes to life's happiness." "But I look for sweet and simple pleasures, which I can taste painlessly and which can distract me from my troubles." "Plants seem to have been planted in profusion across the earth, like the stars in the sky," "in order to entice men through curiosity and pleasure to the study of nature.." "But the stars are placed so far from us." "Auguste?" "Are you OK?" "You're a little too fast for me!" " I'm sorry." " No problem." "Oh, there you are!" "Where were you?" "You've put us to a lot of trouble!" "We'll let your master know that you're back." "You must be hungry." "Come, come." "I'll give you some food." "Come!" "Come." "Kitty!" "Kitty!" "No, look!" "You have to cut it away!" " See?" " You're throwing most of it away!" "You have to." "Besides, the inside's the best." "What was Rousseau like as a kid?" " You're interested?" " Yes!" "You must know that his mother died as she brought him into the world." "His father raised him." "But in the evening after dinner" "they used to read the books that his mother had left behind." "They were so entranced with them that they could keep reading until it was morning." "That's why Rousseau said" ""I had absolutely no knowledge of things but I already understood every emotion"." "Because of an argument his father had to leave Geneva." "He put him in the care of his brother, who entrusted him to Father Lambercier." "There something very important happened in Rousseau's life." "For something, that he hadn't done, he was beaten." "He looked upon that as injustice." "And he said:" ""My first experience of injustice burned so deeply into my soul that every idea that reminded me of it made it come to life again"." "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "What's making you so sad?" "Tell me." "Does it have to do with school?" "Can a boy have an old, white-haired professor as his friend?" "What do you think?" "Thank you for this beautiful day." "Go home quickly, or you father will be upset." "Go home quickly." "Till tomorrow!" "Till tomorrow, Auguste!" "Yes, I'm waiting." "Yes, thank you." "Good day, doctor." "Auguste Stohler." "No, no, I'm fine." "I wanted to ask you if we can still try the operation." "Yes." "Ah, yes." "Yes." "Very good." "Very good." "Thank you." ""My dear daughter, don't be angry with me and forgive me for all the time we've lost in looking for each other." "But I've never stopped loving you even when I didn't agree with your choices or share in your convictions." "But I love you unconditionally and always will"." "Auguste?" "Auguste?" "Here he is!" "I have to post this." "I searched everywhere and I found the hiding place for all her jewelry and all her daily records under the bed." "And in an armoire I found hand-bound books that I saw then for the first time." "They looked like mass books but bigger, more beautiful, with gold stamping." "So I opened one up and read:" ""Here is the only portrait of a man drawn exactly according to nature and in all its truth that exists and that probably ever will." "Whoever you are, whom my destiny or my confidence has made the judge of this volume," "I entreat you, by my misfortunes, by your own heart, in the name of all mankind, do not destroy a unique and useful work which could serve as the first point of reference for the study of man"." "It was The Confessions" "And so I discovered Rousseau." "He spoke personally to me." "Me alone." "I know, it's late." "But I wanted to speak with you." "In the beginning, it was about the pursuit of knowledge, because it was important for me to feel that I was having an influence on a young life that I could alter a fate." "If I couldn't change society, then I could change one destiny, and the another so that society would eventually change." "Instead it's been society that has changed me." "But I didn't want to talk about that." "No." "Don't make the same mistake that I made with my daughter." "I sent her away to school when she was little, not realizing that I was making the mistake of my life." "Had I only kept her close then I wouldn't be regretting the years when I wasn't thinking about her." "Don't make this mistake." "Tom isn't a genius child." "He's a completely normal boy who is full of life and fantasy." "Nature is his school." "He learns in her." "And it's from nature that he has so much to teach us." " Everything alright?" " Yes, everything alright." "It was a bit too much today." " Should I take you home?" " Not necessary." "Marc, could you do something for me?" "Of course." "Here," "Thank you." "Thank you." "Auguste!" "Auguste!" "Auguste!" "Auguste!" "He died during the night." "Auguste!" "Auguste!" "He left this for you." "Just in case anything happened to him." "Tom," "I thank you for the wonderful moments that you've given me." "You are a sun, my young man." "Keep growing up well and don't change." "Not at all." "Promise me!" "I wanted to tell you that." "I didn't want to ruin our beautiful moments with that because I didn't know how to tell you." "In case anything happens to me I entrusted Diderot to the woman who keeps house for me, but he'd be happier with you." "You'll see that he's a good companion." "This is no good bye, because I will always be in your heart." "You only have to call for me with your whole heart." " Good Day." " Good day." "I am Thomas Dubois." "Keep your books closed." "I'm going to speak to you about Rousseau." "But first a few words about a man, a man who taught here, a man who taught this:" ""I shape an enterprise which has had no antecedents and which will never have any imitators." "I wish to show my contemporaries a man in all the truth of nature." "And this man will be me"." "Translation:" "Ennius Corrections:" "TheRicker"