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to me, trying to form her observations into
a regular psychological system. This
exaggerated tendency to self-contemplation
frequently, though unconsciously, led her
to disfigure facts. Sharp and merciless
as her self-analysis might be, it was
sometimes disturbed by a natural inclination to
idealising. So the picture she gave differed
in several respects from that which others
saw.
She judged herself sometimes much more
severely, sometimes much more leniently,
than others did.
Had she been permitted to carry out
her intention of writing the history of her
whole life, this image, painted by herself,
would have corresponded with the ideas
she expressed during her long and frequent
psychological conversations with me.
As, unfortunately, this work remained
unwritten, which undoubtedly would have
been one of the most important biographies
in the world’s literature, and as it became
my lot to draw the feeble outlines of this
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