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Down and Out in Paris and London Quotes

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.

Source:(Victor Gollancz, ed. 1933), Chapter III, Page 26
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  • Book: Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Writer: George Orwell
  • Genre: Biography, Travel
  • Published: 1933
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