Even the memories, the impressions, the thoughts of this body awakened in him now the same aversion as the body itself.

The sight of other people, their remarks, his own reminiscences, everything was for him a source of agony.

Those about him felt this, and instinctively did not allow themselves to move freely, to talk, to express their wishes before him.

All his life was merged in the one feeling of suffering and desire to be rid of it.