“This life we live nowadays! It's not life, it's stagnation, death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses, and the meaningless people inside them! Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.”

—  George Orwell , book Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 5

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