Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

John Berger
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is...
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is...
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is...
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is...
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. The first autobiography Walter Benjamin describes is the biography of his own "autobiography". He states that the only reason why we write our own biography is because we can do it without asking anyone's permission. But this means that he could only write the autobiography because he was not raised in a family, and does not have any living relatives to ask about his childhood and early life.

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