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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

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

~Leon Edel

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

~Leon Edel

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: September 9th, 1907

Died: September 5th, 1997

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