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Mervyn Peake, Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings Quotes: The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to burnWith love.How pitiful is our enforced returnTo those small things we are the masters of.
         

The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to burnWith love.How pitiful is our enforced returnTo those small things we are the masters of.


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The vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to burnWith love.How pitiful is our enforced returnTo those small things we are the masters of.
         



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