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Mervyn Peake

“The vastest things are those we may not learn.
We are not taught to die, nor to be born,
Nor how to burn
With love.
How pitiful is our enforced return
To those small things we are the masters of.”

Mervyn Peake, Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings
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Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings by Mervyn Peake
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