“At this period of his existence, meat and blood, entrails, and all that had ever lived and breathed disgusted him as food, for an animal dies in pain just as man does, and it repelled him to be digesting death's agony.”

—  Marguerite Yourcenar , book The Abyss

Source: The Abyss (1968), p. 190

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