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The philosophy of life Mrs. Dalloway offers, then, is a powerful vision of life and death not as complete contrasts, but as dependent and dialectical states of being.

…Erich Auerbach ventured as to why Woolf’s writing over-flowed with such ‘good and genuine love but also, in its feminine way, with irony, amorphous sadness, and doubt in life.’