Clarissa in Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' reads lines from Shakespeare's play 'Cymbeline' in a bookshop window. These lines prompt her to reflect on a contemporary war-torn world that has accumulated so much sorrow that death might feel like a welcome relief, affecting all individuals regardless of class. Identify the excerpt from the novel that directly projects this specific reflection.

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This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Tears and sorrows; courage and endurance; a perfectly upright and stoical bearing.

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She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away. The clock was striking. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. He made her feel the beauty; made her feel the fun. But she must go back. She must assemble.

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For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same ; can't be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love li fe.

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Since our apparitions, the part of us which appears, are so momentary compared with the other, the unseen part of us, which spreads wide, the unseen might survive, be recovered somehow attached to this person or that, or even haunting certain places after death . . . perhaps.

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