“She looked at him helplessly. After all, it was no use. There was this money-business standing in the way - these meaningless scruples which she had never understood but which she had accepted merely because they were his. She felt all the impotence, the resentment of a woman who sees an abstract idea triumphing over common sense.”

— George Orwell , book Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 10

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