“One new, insurmountable sensation was gaining possession of him almost minute by minute: it was a certain boundless, almost physical loathing for everything he met and saw around him, an obstinate, spiteful, hate-filled loathing. All of the people he met were repulsive to him — their faces, their walk, their movements were repulsive. If anyone had spoken to him, he would probably have just spat at him, bitten him…”