At the bottom of all his feelings there was a sulkiness, a je m’en fous in the face of the world. Life had beaten him; but you can still beat life by turning your face away. Better to sink than rise. Down, down into the ghost-kingdom, the shadowy world where shame, effort, decency do not exist!

—Gordon Comstock, Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell.

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