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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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For me it's hard to understand this....

it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end.

Okay, I don't get the whole sentence. I'm trying to but it's not working. hhh
  

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I found the original passage.

The author (Dickens) is describing how every person has secret inner thoughts and feelings that are not known even to those closest to them. In this part he's saying that those secrets are lost forever when that person dies. This is what he means by "the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality". Then he co
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Thank you, Mr. Wordy!

And sorry I didn't paste the full context. I will be aware of that next time, I hope!
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>"the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality".
the secret characteristic to each individual will be (inexorably) consolidated and preserved for ever (in eternity)

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