private life, n.All

Private life (n.) travels ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠with us like a stowaway: hidden from us, yet never apart from us, sharing the whole voyage in secret.

Private life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠poisoned to the point of inhumanity when public problems are crammed into it — and politics is perverted when solved by inner experience and private emotion.

Private life (n.) may ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠hold the truly political element: its incommunicable, almost ridiculous secrecy, which turns into dull everydayness the moment you try to grasp it.

Private life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what Augustus gave up: he made his whole house public so as to live in public and private at once.

Private life (n.) lived ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠entirely is one deprived of reality: the private man does not appear, and so it is as though he did not exist.

Private life (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠totalitarian leaders is kept secret, while democracies parade their presidents' — totalitarianism forbids the thought that even the highest of us is only human.

Private life (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠easiest to destroy in those who thought of nothing but safeguarding it: they would sacrifice belief, honor and dignity on the slightest provocation.