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Fifth is the race that I call my own and abhor. O to die, or be later born, or born before! This is the Race of Iron. Dark is their plight. Toil and sorrow by day are theirs, and by night the anguish of death; and the gods afflict them and
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“Originality is being different from oneself, not others.”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”
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“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
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.”
― High Windows
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
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.”
― High Windows
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