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private life

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private life (plural private lives)

The aspects of one's life that are personal, such as family, friends and other personal relationships, as opposed to the elements that make up one's public or professional life.

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Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business. Chester A. Arthur

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. Lauren Bacall

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower. Banksy

There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life. George Eliot

The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action. Allan Bloom

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life. David Harvey

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