What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer.
("Mrs. Dalloway")
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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.
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