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He did not want to have his newfound respiratory freedom ruined so soon be the sultry climate of humans.

— Patrick Süskind

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He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but superhuman, an angel's scent.

People are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes.

The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour—that is, a sinful odour.

Suddenly he knew that he had never found gratification in love, but always only in hatred—in hating and in being hated.

Whoever has survived his own birth on a rubbish heap is not so easily shoved back out of this world again.

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