"It was good, really, that this external world……" — Patrick Süskind
"It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge."
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29 Quotes by Patrick Süskind
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Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to…
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There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.
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As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.
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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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Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows…
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Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an…
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...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if…
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No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of…
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With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of…
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How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.
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And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled…
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He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever…
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
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Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies…
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I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and…
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed.…
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The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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