He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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