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
...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. — Patrick Süskind Experience Copy Share Image
She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet… — Patrick Süskind Beauty Copy Share Image
...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep… — 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 Lapland Copy Share Image
“He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you.” — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent. — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably good… — Patrick Süskind Angel Copy Share Image
“And the awful thing was that Grenouille, although he knew that this odour was his odour, could not smell it. Virtually drowning… — 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… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and… — Patrick Süskind Anarchy Copy Share Image
“There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of… — Patrick Süskind 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 Art Copy Share Image
“Moonlight knew no colors and traced the contours of the terrain only very softly. It covered the land a dirty gray, strangling… — Patrick Süskind Life Copy Share Image
“Walking soothes. There is a healing power in walking. The regular placement of one foot in front of the other while at… — Patrick Süskind Healing Copy Share Image
“He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
“There were no mad flashings of the eye, no lunatic grimace passed over his face. He was not out of his mind,… — Patrick Süskind Happy person 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… — Patrick Süskind Affection Copy Share Image
“and Grenouille’s mother, who was still a young woman, barely in her mid-twenties, and who still was quite pretty and had almost… — Patrick Süskind Children Copy Share Image
“He looks as if he were three or four; looks just like one of those unapproachable, incomprehensible, willful little prehuman creatures, who… — Patrick Süskind Despotic 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 Mind 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 Mind 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 Dark 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
And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they… — Patrick Süskind Beauty Copy Share Image
“So spoke Grenouille the Great and, while the peasantry of scent danced and celebrated beneath him, he glided with wide-stretched wings down… — 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 Mind 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… — Patrick Süskind Candid 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 Heart beat 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… — Patrick Süskind Success Copy Share Image
