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Mervyn Peake Quotes: Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.
         

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.


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