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Preoccupations that will come into her own novels are everywhere aired in these marginalia.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010

Preoccupations and scruples fell away from her; she had never known a greater happiness than the week she passed in this initiation.

From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry

Preoccupations of food, money, lust, pain, etc., are of the body and are gone.

From The New Revelation by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir