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Moonlight knew no colors and traced the contours of the terrain only very softly. It covered the land a dirty gray, strangling life all night long. This world molded in lead, where nothing moved but the wind that fell sometimes like a shadow over the gray forests, and where nothing lived but the scent of the naked earth, was the only world he accepted, for it was much like the world of his soul.

— Patrick Süskind Das Parfum ['Perfume (1985)

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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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