People are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes. - Patrick Süskind

His thesis was that life could develop only at a certain distance from the earth, since the earth itself constantly emits a corrupting gas, a so-called fluidum letale, which lames vital energies and sooner or later utterly extinguishes them.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourself to crush with your own hand disgusts you.