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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. Rene Descartes Legacy 1,052
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. Joseph Joubert Legacy 329
We all leave footprints in the sand, the question is, will we be a big heal, or a great soul. Source Unknown Legacy 136
For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography. Robert Penn Warren Legacy 114
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. John L. Motley Legacy 101
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? Logan Pearsall Smith Legacy 99
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. Virginia Woolf Legacy 93
When my journal appears, many statues must come down. Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley Legacy 92
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble. C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon Legacy 90
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become. David R. Hawkins Legacy 86
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. George Orwell Legacy 83
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as Call Me God) to KCMG (Kindly Call Me God) to GCMG (God Calls Me God). Anthony Sampson Legacy 83
Memoirs are the backstairs of history. George Meredith Legacy 81
Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. Anonymous Legacy 81
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. Philip Guedalla Legacy 80
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. Rebecca West Legacy 79
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. Augusto Roa Bastos Legacy 79
Your descendants shall gather your fruits. Virgil Legacy 79
I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. A.A. (Alan Alexandra) Milne Legacy 78
There is properly no history; only biography. Ralph Waldo Emerson Legacy 78
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. Henry Kissinger Legacy 75
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. Samuel Johnson Legacy 75
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. Horace Legacy 74
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. Edward Gibbon Legacy 72
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. Thomas Carlyle Legacy 71
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. Elias Canetti Legacy 70
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory. Agesilaus II Legacy 68
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 Legacy 68
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. Mark Twain Legacy 67
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it. Paul Murray Kendall Legacy 65
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity. Oscar Wilde Legacy 63
A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle. Richard Holmes Legacy 63
Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two. Ellery Sedgwick Legacy 63
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. Thomas Carlyle Legacy 62
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life. Rebecca West Legacy 61
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. Salvador Dali Legacy 59
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. W. H. Auden Legacy 58
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Ralph Waldo Emerson Legacy 58
I am riding for Legacy ATV and I have quite a few new sponsors this year. Ben Jackson Legacy 58
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. Hilaire Belloc Legacy 57
The surrounding that householders crave are glorified autobiographies. T. H. Gibblings Legacy 57
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. Quentin Crisp Legacy 55
An autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. Barbara G. Harris Legacy 54
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. John Arbuthnot Legacy 53
Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. John Grigg Legacy 51
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. Evelyn Waugh Legacy 51
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering. Oscar Wilde Legacy 48
Every man P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum Legacy 41
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. Mark Twain Legacy 40
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. Oscar Wilde Legacy 40

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