MaturityA stationary sense. .. as, I suppose, I shall have, till my single body grows        Inaccurate, tired; Then I shall start to feel the backward pull Take over, sickening and masterful –         Some say, de

Philip Larkin
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  1. What will survive of us is love.
  2. Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.
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  5. 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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