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... all fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction.
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to b ...
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yeste ...
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
I write mainly for the kindly race of women. I am their sister, and in no way exempt from their sorrowful lot. I have drank [sic] ...
It is too late--the world is too dark for any thought ahead. Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to mak ...
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography.... For autobiography has to do with time, with seque ...
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.
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