This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don’t sell anything to anybody.
ATTRIBUTION:
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961), French author. the narrator (Ferdinand Bardamu), in Journey to the End of the Night, p. 90 (1932, trans. 1934, repr. 1966).
