human beings the eternally uncreated

reluctant to join any living comunity in service, to say nothing of taking the fate of a single living creature upon himself for this purpose, oh, he had always lived with the dead only, among whom he reckoned the living, he had considered human beings as lifeless building blocks with which to erect and create a death-fixed beauty, and therefore human beings as a whole had disappeared for him into the realm of the unaccomplished, into the oblivion of the eternally uncreated

Hermann Broch, The Death of Vergil. Jean Starr Untermeyer (trad). Vintage International: 1995