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Quote by Virginia Woolf
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
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Life is not presented as a neat sequence of separate moments, like evenly placed lamps. It is more like a continuous, glowing atmosphere around us. The “luminous halo” and “semi-transparent envelope” suggest that consciousness gives life an ongoing, surrounding quality from its beginning to its end, rather than dividing it into perfectly ordered parts.
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