There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.
世上有一类麻木而陈腐的人,除非从事某种惯常的工作,否则几乎意识不到自己活着。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · An Apology for Idlers —