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In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.
— Charles Dickens · Great Expectations
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This expresses deep, inseparable devotion, describing someone as so completely woven into the speaker's inner existence that past and present cannot be untangled from her presence, making her essential to the very core of who they are.
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