It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs—and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 3.

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