To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a prese…

George Orwell
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To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available. ✨ George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). Animal Farm and 1984, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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