Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

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chapter-007	Besides, where was I to find a person to write the words, and one who would give himself the trouble of turning the poetry to my liking?
chapter-007	Have you nothing to confess, somebody will ask me, upon this subject?
chapter-007	What means can I take to introduce it to the world?
chapter-007	What?
chapter-007	Who would guess the cause of my tears, and what, at this moment, passed within me?
chapter-007	said I to myself, with disdain, shall Jean Jacques thus suffer himself to be subdued by interest and curiosity?
chapter-007	said I, taking one of them up, this is a patchbox of a new construction: may I ask what is its use?
chapter-011	And in Emilius?
chapter-011	Are they nothing more than vain; is my insensibility purely ingratitude?
chapter-011	Do friendship, love and virtue reign in this capital more than elsewhere?
chapter-011	I?
chapter-011	Is it their fault or mine?
chapter-011	What could I do?
chapter-001	Could I love thee thus wert thou only my son?
chapter-001	How could I become cruel or vicious, when I had before my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world?
chapter-001	I love good wine, but where shall I get it?
chapter-001	I wish to be universally respected; how shall I compass my design?
chapter-001	It will be asked, how did this mischief happen?
chapter-001	Who could be suspected of this mischief?
chapter-001	Why am I not permitted to recount all the little anecdotes of that thrice happy age, at the recollection of whose joys I ever tremble with delight?
chapter-001	said my father smiling, does not your heart inform you?
chapter-001	why should I anticipate the miseries I have endured?
chapter-005	As I began to read music tolerably well, the question was, how I should learn composition?
chapter-005	But is it possible for man to taste, in their utmost extent, the delights of love?
chapter-005	He said, How many parts will you take?
chapter-005	How could I see the moment advancing with more pain than pleasure?
chapter-005	How is it possible to fall into such a state in the flower of ones age, without any inward decay, or without having done anything to destroy health?
chapter-005	How was it that this delightful crisis did not secure our mutual felicity for the remainder of her life and mine?
chapter-005	The other, having satisfied Grossi in these particulars, asked him if there was anything he could serve him in?
chapter-005	Was I happy?
chapter-005	What passions?
chapter-005	Why, instead of transports that should have intoxicated me with their deliciousness, did I experience only fears and repugnance?
chapter-002	After several questions relative to my faith, situation, and family, he asked me bluntly if my mother was damned?
chapter-002	Can we avoid feeling an anxious wish at least to know whether our affection is returned?
chapter-002	Is it possible to possess love, I will not say without desires, for I certainly had them, but without inquietude, without jealousy?
chapter-002	The difficulty still remained how I was to gain a subsistence?
chapter-002	They were just beginning to speak of his journey, when casting his eye on the small table he asked in a sharp tone, what lad that was?
chapter-002	What interest had M. de Pontverre in entertaining, treating with respect, and endeavoring to convince me?
chapter-002	Who would believe, that a childish fault should be productive of such melancholy consequences?
chapter-002	Why did I not experience a moment of embarrassment, timidity or restraint?
chapter-002	Why not?
chapter-002	Why should I now disguise my thoughts?
chapter-003	At the age I then was, does the fear of perishing with hunger give such alarms?
chapter-003	Have you never seen an opera in Italy?
chapter-003	Her brother asked me, giddily, why I trembled thus?
chapter-003	I was attentive and thoughtful; what could I do?
chapter-003	She looked on my fortune as already made, if not destroyed by my own negligence; what then would she say on my arrival?
chapter-003	Was it fear of not obtaining that succor I stood in need of, which agitated me to this degree?
chapter-003	What in the world was so curious as a heron fountain?
chapter-003	Who can read this without supposing me on the brink of the grave?
chapter-003	Would it be believed, that when near nineteen, any one could be so stupid as to build his hopes of future subsistence on an empty phial?
chapter-003	forever a footman?
chapter-003	said she, in an affectionate tone, art thou here again?
chapter-008	Besides, how was it possible to reconcile the severe principles I had just adopted to a situation with which they had so little relation?
chapter-008	How should I afterwards have dared to speak of disinterestedness and independence?
chapter-008	People think I am ridiculous, nay, even absurd; but what signifies this to me?
chapter-008	Should not I, the cash- keeper of a receiver- general of finances, have preached poverty and disinterestedness with a very ill grace?
chapter-008	Was it the same Madam de Warens, formerly so gay and lively, to whom the vicar of Pontverre had given me recommendations?
chapter-008	What remained to her of primitive virtue?
chapter-008	What, said I, will become of me in this moment, and before the whole court, if, in my confusion, any of my stupid expressions should escape me?
chapter-008	Who, in the situation in which the world has placed me, has a right to require more at my hands?
chapter-008	Will it be believed that the night of so brilliant a day was for me a night of anguish and perplexity?
chapter-008	whether or not I was properly dressed?
chapter-010	But by what means had this manuscript fallen into his hands?
chapter-010	How I do hate all your titles, and pity you on account of your being obliged to bear them?
chapter-010	How cruel is your goodness?
chapter-010	How, without presence of mind, am I to act?
chapter-010	I have not been able to form any in the ranks to which I was equal; is it in yours that I ought to seek for them?
chapter-010	Is it in these places Jean Jacques ought to be seen?
chapter-010	Was it possible for me to expect in a lady of such high rank, a constancy proof against my want of address to support it?
chapter-010	What is to be done?
chapter-010	What say I?
chapter-010	What would the subjects of the extracts I should have had to make from books, or even the books themselves, have signified to me?
chapter-010	Whence comes it that even a child can intimidate a man, whom the power of kings has never inspired with fear?
chapter-010	Why do not you reside at Clarens?
chapter-004	Besides, did I carry pens, paper and ink with me?
chapter-004	Having called myself a Parisian, as such, I was under the jurisdiction of his excellency: he therefore asked me who I was?
chapter-004	Having found so many good people in my youth, why do I find so few in my age?
chapter-004	He asked me, If I had ever copied music?
chapter-004	I had not all this time forgotten my dear Madam de Warens, but how was I to find her?
chapter-004	I had read, too, that Marshal Schomberg was remarkably shortsighted, and why might not Marshal Rousseau be the same?
chapter-004	Is their race extinct?
chapter-004	It was necessary to pass through Nion: could I do this without seeing my good father?
chapter-004	On her laughing, I said to myself, Why are not my lips cherries?
chapter-004	Ten volumes a day would not suffice barely to enumerate my thoughts; how then should I find time to write them?
chapter-004	Where should I seek her in Paris?
chapter-004	Where should I seek her?
chapter-004	While we can enjoy, at so small an expense, such pure, such true delights, why should we be solicitous for others?
chapter-004	Who would have thought that I should never see them more; and that here our ephemeral amours must end?
chapter-004	Why deprive myself of the actual charm of my enjoyments to inform others what I enjoyed?
chapter-004	had those of my early youth been seen, those made during my travels, composed, but never written!--Why did I not write them?
chapter-004	or how bear the expense of such a journey?
chapter-004	will be asked; and why should I have written them?
chapter-006	And what motive could have united the labors of so many millions of men, in a place that no one inhabited?
chapter-006	But how could I bear to be a secondary person with her to whom I had been everything, and who could never cease being such to me?
chapter-006	But why expose myself to this danger?
chapter-006	Have you had a good journey?
chapter-006	Have you so many times preserved my life, for the sole purpose of taking from me all that could render it desirable?
chapter-006	How could I live an alien in that house where I had been the child?
chapter-006	How do you do?
chapter-006	How shall I continue to relate the same occurrences, without wearying my readers with the repetition, any more than I was satiated with the enjoyment?
chapter-006	How shall I prolong, according to my inclination, this recital at once so pleasing and simple?
chapter-006	I asked myself, What state am I in?
chapter-006	I then asked, whether she had received my letter?
chapter-006	Is this the reward of an attachment like mine?
chapter-006	One can not help exclaiming, what strength could have transported these enormous stones so far from any quarry?
chapter-006	Should I die at this instant, must I be damned?
chapter-006	To sow dissension, dishonor, scandal, and hell itself, in her family?
chapter-006	Was I going, in return for the mothers kindness, to seek the ruin of the daughter?
chapter-006	said I, my heart bursting with the most poignant grief, what do you dare to inform me of?
chapter-006	why is not all this real?
chapter-012	But to what place was I to go?
chapter-012	But what of this?
chapter-012	By whom and for what purpose?
chapter-012	Did the doctors wish to know to a certainty that I was not a Catholic?
chapter-012	For what could I hope, feeling as I did, my want of aptitude to express myself with ease?
chapter-012	Had any person laid their hands upon my papers whilst they remained in the Hotel de Luxembourg?
chapter-012	How is my heart still moved when I think of your goodness?
chapter-012	How was it possible anybody could doubt of the choice I should make in such an alternative?
chapter-012	Of what consequence was this to them?
chapter-012	They who suffer me to remain may in a moment drive me away, and can I hope my persecutors, seeing me happy, will leave me here to continue to be so?
chapter-012	To what use were they to be put?
chapter-012	To whom were these letters of consequence?
chapter-012	Were they desirous of proving I was not a good Calvinist?
chapter-012	What could the Sorbonne have to do in the matter?
chapter-012	What therefore could I think of the visit of Barthes and the tender concern he showed for my welfare?
chapter-012	What was become of them?
chapter-012	What was to become of me at the beginning of the winter, without object, preparation, guide or carriage?
chapter-012	What, therefore, did they want with me?
chapter-012	Why came they to see me with such an equipage?
chapter-012	Why did I not go to Neuchatel?
chapter-012	Why have I not had reason to shed them more frequently?
chapter-012	Why repeat their visit?
chapter-012	Why were they so desirous of having me for their host?
chapter-012	how deeply did they wound me when they deprived me of your friendship?
chapter-012	what then should I have been had I published the treatise of Esprit, or any similar work?
chapter-009	Am I then a young man of whom Madam dHoudetot ought to be afraid?
chapter-009	But do you know in what manner I will make amends for my faults during the short space of time I have to remain near to you?
chapter-009	By whom?
chapter-009	Could I avoid receiving her?
chapter-009	Did not she come in search of me?
chapter-009	Do you ever expect another opportunity like the present one, of giving her proofs of your gratitude?
chapter-009	Do you find the weight of the obligations you are under to her uneasy to you?
chapter-009	Do you imagine that anything coming from you can be forgotten in such a manner?
chapter-009	Do you know that your letter frightens me?
chapter-009	Do you think me dupe enough to believe you have not comprehended what it meant?
chapter-009	For how was I to get through it without exposing either Madam dHoudetot or Theresa?
chapter-009	Had I first sought after his mistress?
chapter-009	Had not he himself sent her to me?
chapter-009	Had you reason to be dissatisfied with him, do you think your friend capable of advising you to do a mean thing?
chapter-009	Have you no fears lest your conduct should be misinterpreted?
chapter-009	Hence, what is the law?
chapter-009	How can the continued overflowings of a susceptible heart suffer it to be incessantly employed in so many little cares relative to the person?
chapter-009	How could she, for whom I had never had a secret, have one from me?
chapter-009	How could this agree with defects which are peculiar to little minds?
chapter-009	How is it possible, said she to her, you can not perceive there is a criminal intercourse between them?
chapter-009	How, therefore, was he my Mecaenas?
chapter-009	I have been injured, but what does this signify?
chapter-009	If these be the effects of friendship, what are those of enmity?
chapter-009	In what light, therefore, could I consider her false and mysterious conduct?
chapter-009	In what manner was I protected by him?
chapter-009	Is it possible to dissimulate with persons whom we love?
chapter-009	Is it with me or for me that you are angry?
chapter-009	Is this, my dear friend, what we agreed upon?
chapter-009	My God, what is the matter with you?
chapter-009	She said her son and M. de Linant; and afterwards carelessly added, And you, dear, will not you go also?
chapter-009	Should I, who never do ill to any person, be the innocent means of doing it to my friends?
chapter-009	This he was delighted to discover; but how was he to take advantage of it without exposing himself?
chapter-009	To suffer them to remain unemployed?
chapter-009	To what end was I born with exquisite faculties?
chapter-009	Was the conversation of that old woman agreeable enough to take her into favor, and of sufficient importance to make of it so great a secret?
chapter-009	Was this manner of acting consistent with honor and uprightness?
chapter-009	What could I do?
chapter-009	What could I think of the sentiments with which she endeavored to inspire her daughter?
chapter-009	What could she have to conceal from me whose happiness she knew principally consisted in that of herself and her daughter?
chapter-009	What does it mean?
chapter-009	What is to be done?
chapter-009	What monstrous ingratitude was hers, to endeavor to instil it into her from whom I expected my greatest consolation?
chapter-009	What powerful motives did I not call to my mind to stifle it?
chapter-009	What scruple, thought I, ought I to make of a folly prejudicial to nobody but myself?
chapter-009	What step did I take upon this occasion?
chapter-009	What then is become of that friendship and confidence, and by what means have I lost them?
chapter-009	What therefore did he mean by these precautions, delays, and mysteries?
chapter-009	What was the subject of these singular conversations?
chapter-009	What would I not have given to be the child of her mother?
chapter-009	Why such a profound mystery?
chapter-009	Why, my dear friend, do I not see you?
chapter-009	Will you three months hence be in a situation to perform the journey more at your ease than at present?
chapter-009	With this I was as well acquainted as himself; the question was, by what means he had obtained it?
chapter-009	Would not it be said by my presumptive remorse that, by my gallantry, manner and dress, I was going to seduce her?
chapter-009	after these, what resentment can remain in the heart?
chapter-009	by exalting himself, or endeavoring to abase me?
chapter-009	was this a moment to harden it when it was overflowed by the tears which penetrated it in every part?
chapter-009	was this ever possible?
chapter-009	whether it was by merit or address?