Leon Edel Quotes

• El secreto de la biografía reside en encontrar el vínculo entre el talento y los logros. Una biografía parece irrelevante si no descubre el solapamiento entre lo que el individuo hizo y la vida que lo hizo posible. Sin descubrir eso, lo que hay son sucesos sin forma y cotilleos.

  León Edel

  Gossip, Achievement, Secret

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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.

  León Edel

  Death, House, Mind

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• Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.

  León Edel

  Men, Ideas, Creative

  Leon Edel (1970). “Henry D. Thoreau”

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• Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

  León Edel

  Confused, Writing, Good Day

  Leon Edel (1978). “Henry James: the conquest of London, 1870-1881”

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

  León Edel

  Eye, Four, Obsession

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• The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

  León Edel

  Writing, Self, House

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