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Mervyn Peake Quotes

Mervyn Peake quotes about life

British Writer July 9, 1911 – November 17, 1968

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She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leaves and flowers. It was not passion she felt: not the passion of the body, though that was there, but rather an exultation, a reaching for life, for the whole of the life which she was capable, and in that life which she but dimly divined was centered love, the love for a man. She was not in love with Rantel: she was in love with what he meant to her as someone she could love. Mervyn Peake
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean. Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Peake quote: "For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless."
For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless. Mervyn Peake
Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo. Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins. That hold Glamorgan's blood. The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and bread.- Rhondda Valley Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Peake quote: "Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia."
Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia. Mervyn Peake

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