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“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, Down and Out in Paris and London

“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“Where is your husband?

LADY MACDUFF:
I hope, in no place so unsanctified
Where such as thou mayst find him.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“All is the fear, and nothing is the love, as little is the wisdom, where the flight so runs against all reason.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“¿Adónde huir? Yo no he hecho ningún daño. Aunque bien recuerdo que estoy en el mundo, donde suele alabarse el hacer daño y hacer bien se juzga locura temeraria”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth