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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

Leon Edel

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

Leon Edel

Leon Edel

Born: September 9, 1907
Died: September 5, 1997 (aged 89)
Bio: Joseph Leon Edel was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel.
Known for:
  1. Henry James: A Life (1962)
  2. Writing Lives: Principia Biographica (1984)
  3. Henry James (1931)
  4. A bibliography of Henry James (1957)
  5. The visitable past

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