Patrick Süskind Quotes

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Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.

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He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

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With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it..

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When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.

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How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.

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He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

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No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes..

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It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.

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He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

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He came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

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He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.

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He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

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She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.

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He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

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This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely new, capable of creating a whole world, a magical, rich world, and in an instant you forgot all the loathsomeness around you and felt so rich, so at ease, so free, so fine...

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There's jasmine! Alcohol there! Bergamont there! Grenouille went on crowing, and at each name he pointed to a different spot in the room, although it was so dark that at best you could only surmise the shadows of the cupboards filled with bottles.

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