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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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And I, whose childhood
Is a forgotten boredom,
Feel like a child
Who comes on a scene
Of adult reconciling,
And can understand nothing
But the unusual laughter,
And starts to be happy.
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I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.
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- to start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
R. G. Collingwood
Philip Larkin
Born:
August 9, 1922
Died:
December 2, 1985
(aged 63)
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