“We are familiar with people who seek out solitude: penitents, failures, saints, or prophets. They retreat to deserts, preferably, where they live… — Patrick Suskind Copy Share Image
“He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-though never so egregiously that people might enjoy… — 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
“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
“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
And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and… — 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 no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“...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 Image
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 Image
“…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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
