Dull

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“Each dull day and each despairing act
Builds up the crags from which the spirit leaps....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“This was one of the rye-bread days, all dull and damp without.”
—Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)