There are two ways to live, he decided. You can be rich, or you can deliberately refuse to be rich. You can… — George Orwell
There are two ways to live, he decided. You can be rich, or you can deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.
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He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.
That is the devilish thing about poverty, the ever-recurrent thing - loneliness. Day after day with never an intelligent person to talk to; night after night back to your godless room, always alone. Perhaps it sounds rather fun if you are rich and sought-after; but how different it is when you do it from necessity!
In a country like England you can no more be cultured without money than you can join the Cavalry Club.

