Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
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Life is first boredom, then fear.Philip Larkin
When he came back
He said the horses were restless, and I was sad
That any man or beast that night should lack
The happiness I had.
Philip Larkin
Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
Philip Larkin
Half life is over now,
And I meet full face on dark mornings
The bestial visor, bent in
By the blows of what happened to happen.
Philip Larkin
So are their separate ways
Of building, benediction,
Measuring love and money
Ways of slow dying.
Philip Larkin
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