Arms Quote by Patrick Süskind

“...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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“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.”

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“The wind blew cold, and he was freezing, but he did not notice that he was freezing, for within him was a counterfrost, fear.”

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“Something was happening while you waited. The most essential thing was happening. And even if he himself was doing nothing, it was happening through…

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“Although he had used it very sparingly, the perfume that he had mixed in Montpellier was slowly was slowly running out. He created a…

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