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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.

— Virginia Woolf

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

— Jeanette Winterson

What I view life like is about energy. Everything is about energy - everything. We physically are little units of electrical energy, and we vibrate and project electromagnetic thought.

— John Trudell

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

— John Hawkes

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

— Thomas Browne

Life is a state of consciousness.

— Emmet Fox

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

— Philip Roth

Life is a process of evolution.

— Leroy Hood

✗Opposing Perspectives

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

— Fred Allen

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

— William E. Gladstone