“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.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty. But a man like Paddy, with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain. That is why it is such nonsense to pretend that those who have 'come down in the world' are to be pitied above all others.
The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start,
and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start,
and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“Beauty will save the world.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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