“But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. 

But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.”

                                                                                                         

Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins