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QUOTATION:What can be said,
Except that suffering is exact, but where
Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic?
ATTRIBUTION:Philip Larkin (1922–1985), British poet. Deceptions (l. 11–13). . .

Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwaite, ed. (1988) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
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