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Grenouille’s mother, who was still a young woman, barely in her mid-twenties, and who still was quite pretty and had almost all her teeth in her mouth and some hair on her head and – except for gout and syphilis and a touch of consumption – suffered from no serious disease,
He was an abomination from the start. He decided in favour of life out of sheer spite and sheer malice.
Man’s misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.
He was so full of disgust, disgust at the world and at himself, that he could not weep.