The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought…you do not escape from money merely by being moneyless. On the contrary, you are the hopeless slave of money until you have enough of it to live on—a ‘competence’, as the beastly middle-class phrase goes.

-George Orwell. Keep the Aspidistra Flying.  [I’m feeling this now.] (via southerndrawl) (via printedandbound)

oh george orwell, i love you so very, very much

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