Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break? Are variety, moderation and balance instruments we use to keep us from boiling in an… - Jean-Paul Sartre

And naturally, everything they tell about in books can happen in real life, but not in the same way. It is to this way of happening
that I clung so tightly.

Thing are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea.

THE HOLE The hole is something which longs to be filled. The small child is drawn as if by magic to holes. He can not restrain himself from putting in his finger or his whole arm. He makes a symbolic sacrifice of his body to cause the void to disappear and a plenitude of being to exist. The fundamental tendency of human beings to stop up holes persists throughout life, symbolically and in reality. And only from this standpoint can we understand why the feminine sex is obscene. It is obscene because it is a hole and because it sends out an appeal for a plenitude of flesh. A woman also senses her condition as such an appeal, such an enticement. Thus every hole becomes something obscene because it “is an obscene expectation.