📜 New in the Commonplace Communiqué → 00055 ¶ from Burmese Days ¶ George Orwell
…he had learned to live inwardly, secretly, in books and secret thoughts that could not be uttered. Even his talks with the doctor were a kind of talking to himself; for the doctor, good man, understood little of what was said to him. But it is a corrupting thing to live one’s real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
—George Orwell
—found in Burmese Days (1934)