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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
Leon Edel

 



Biography
Type: Critic
Nationality: American
Born: September 9, 1907
Died: September 5, 1997

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