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Letter "A" » autobiography
«On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.»
Author: Paul Murray Kendall
| Keywords:
autobiography, biographer, biographers, shelters, trail, uneasily
«One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.»
«Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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autobiography, discontinuities, discontinuity, extensive, fleeting, Here I Am, recollection, reminiscence, reminiscences, The Sequence
«Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography»
«That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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abstract, autobiography, civilized, concrete, delightful, fascinating, record, vague
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