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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | The book of life |
 | | So, approximately half my life has now been set down in journal form, but what's interesting to me is that the two journals have quite different intentions. |
 | | However parochial they are, however apparently insignificant the entries, the pages of a journal offer us, as readers, a chance to live the writer's life as he or she lived it, after he or she has lived it. |
 | | In that case, then, the book of a life, an intimate journal - if it is true, if it is honest - will speak to everyone who has a chance to read it: it will be, in a curious way, both completely individual and universal. |
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