Down and Out in Paris and London

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The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes.

George Orwell

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Stars The night sky

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Bozo

Author

George Orwell

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Down and Out in Paris and London

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Autobiography and memoir

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English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 30.

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.

George Orwell

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Freedom in poverty Poverty

Author

George Orwell

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Down and Out in Paris and London

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Autobiography and memoir

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English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Freedom in poverty Worry Poverty

Author

George Orwell

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Down and Out in Paris and London

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Autobiography and memoir

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English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

George Orwell

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Atheism

Author

George Orwell

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Down and Out in Paris and London

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Autobiography and memoir

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English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 30.

Clothes are powerful things. Dressed in a tramp's clothes it is very difficult, at any rate for the first day, not to feel that you are genuinely degraded.

George Orwell

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Clothes make the man Clothing

Author

George Orwell

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Down and Out in Paris and London

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Autobiography and memoir

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English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 24.