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A perfectly modern man, indeed, who wants to build himself a house feels as if he were walling himself up alive in a mausoleum.

From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Day succeeded day in Di's life, each day adding one more stone to the prison in which it seemed as if an inexorable hand were walling her up.

From Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary