Whoever has survived his own birth on a rubbish heap is not so easily shoved back out of this world again. - Patrick Süskind

He wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.

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

These Diderots and d'Alemberts and Voltaires and Rousseaus...finally managed to infect the whole society with their perfidious fidgets, with their sheer delight in discontent and their unwillingness to be satisfied with anything in this world, in short, with the boundless chaos that reigns inside their own heads!