He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but superhuman, an angel's scent.
Patrick Süskind Quotes
born 1949 Germany
Patrick Süskind (born 26 March 1949) is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his novel
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The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour—that is, a sinful odour.
Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.
Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself!
He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
Naturally, the gnome had everything to do with it.
Man's misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.
He wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.
The horrible, oppressive, vaporous, pigeon blue-gray sky.
He was very suspicious of inventions, for they always meant that some rule would have to be broken.
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.
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