Quote by Italo Calvino
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, ar

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. – Italo Calvino

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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. – Italo Calvino

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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city. – Italo Calvino

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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. – Thomas Carlyle

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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldnt be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. – Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. – W. H. Auden

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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti

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