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Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

George Orwell
Loneliness, Mean, Worry
George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

George Orwell
Loneliness, People, Age
George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

George Orwell
Loneliness, Memorable, Two
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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