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biography is only possible because lives leave traces of their appearance. The biographer gathers up these traces and turns them into a story, narrates them as a whole in order to bring into view the life’s arc, from beginning to end, which seems so hard to grasp or even to glimpse from the inside. This is the artistic or aesthetic element of biography: uncovering a life’s shape, and perhaps its kalon qualities.