He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world! — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“He no longer yearned for his life in the cave. He had experienced that life once and it had proved unlivable. Just… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“For here, inside the crypt, was where he truly lived. Which is to say, for well over twenty hours a day in… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“As he took possession of it, he was overcome by a sense of something like sacred awe. He carefully spread his horse… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“He had a mighty urge to pull out his pistol and let loose in every directon, right into the coffeehouse, smack through… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“He had to hold his body very still, very still, like some vessel about to slosh over from too much motion. Gradually… — patrick suskind Copy Share Image
“He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
“...if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city - even if it was just the door… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
“…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
“The wind blew cold, and he was freezing, but he did not notice that he was freezing, for within him was a counterfrost, fear.” — Patrick Suskind Copy Share
“Something was happening while you waited. The most essential thing was happening. And even if he himself was doing nothing, it was happening through… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
“Although he had used it very sparingly, the perfume that he had mixed in Montpellier was slowly was slowly running out. He created a… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
“This scent had a freshness, but not the freshness of limes or pomegranates, not the freshness of myrrh or cinnamon bark or curly mint… — Patrick Suskind Copy Share
And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
“And the awful thing was that Grenouille, although he knew that this odour was his odour, could not smell it. Virtually drowning in himself,… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share
