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“And I her son, though summer-born And summer-loving, none the less Am easier when the leaves aregone...” quote by Philip Larkin — Download Open image

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Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

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Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,…

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“Living toys are something novel, But it soon wears off somehow.”

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“Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone, And little books; sprawlings of flowers, cut For Sunday, brownish now; some brass and stuff Up at the holy end; the small neat organ; And a tense, musty, unignorable silence, Brewed God knows how long. Hatless, I take…

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, age, and…

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“It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.”

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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we…

So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the…

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“One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.”

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“I sit in my room like Miss Havisham, about whom I have been reading this week. Better the Dickens you know than the Dickens you don't know - on the whole I enjoyed it. But I should like to say something about this 'irrepressible vitality', this 'throwing a fresh handful of characters on the fire when it burns low', in…

“When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way - A perfectly vile and foul Inversion of all that's been. What the old ratbags mean Is I've never done what I don't. So the shit in the shuttered chateau Who does his five hundred words…

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The sensible person is always serious about sensible advice.

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Lt. Carson: My grandmother was a full-bodied Cherokee Indian. Lili: How exciting. Lt. Carson: It was for my grandfather.

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... War on the destiny of man! Doom on the sun! Before death takes you, O take back this.

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I request to God,, to every boy of the world, must provide at least two daughters,So that everyman, should be forced to learn to…

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It has no future but itself Its infinite contain Its pastenlightened to perceive New periods of pain.

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Poet, patting more nonsense foamed From the sea, conceive for thecourts Of these academies, the diviner health Disclosed in common forms.

Wallace Stevens

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You can't choose what stays and what stays away.

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Be Thankful for all things in life. Even for the bad things. SOMETIMES the worst situations in life turn out to be the best…

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No reason why anyone should fall from the eyes, Oh, wretched people who take advantage of this limitation, and the desire to rise above…

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Maria. Nay, but say true, doesit work upon him? Sir Toby Belch. Like aqua vitae with a midwife.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to hide your feelings from someone you love, but easy with other people.

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