“There are two ways to live, he decided. You can be rich, or you can deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.”

— George Orwell, book Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch.3

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