Every man's memory is his private literature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.
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