Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a lu…

Virginia Woolf
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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. ✨ 1919 'Modern Fiction'.
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