[Twenty Thirteen] Pagination – using theme's default next/prev icons

This is my blog: https://rohitpalit.com/blog/

I love the ‘older posts’, ‘newer posts’ icons (genericons), but at the same time, I understand that pagination would come in more handy in future, once actual posts are added and the site is launched.

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So, what I want:
Pagination with next/prev genericons

I want to use a plugin like WP-Paginate. As, manually editing each layout .php, even from a child theme, isn’t probably a very good thing.

Open to all types of suggestions. ??