"These three weeks were squalid and uncomfortable, and evidently there was worse coming, for my rent would be due before long. nevertheless, things were not a quarter as bad as I had expected. For when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actualy true that the less money you have, the less you worry. When you have a hundred francs in the world you ware liable to the most craven panics. When you have only three francs you are quite indifferent: for three francs will feed you till to-morrow, and you cannot think further than that. You are bored, but you are not afraid. You think vaguely, "I shall be starving in a day or two - shocking, isn't it?" And then the mind wanders to other topics. A bread and margarine diet does, to some extent, provide its own syndrome."
George Orwell
Down and About in Paris and London, pg. 20
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