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“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“...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.”
― Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

“He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“This scent had a freshness, but not the freshness of limes or pomegranates, not the freshness of myrrh or cinnamon bark or curly mint or birch or camphor or pine needles, not that of a May rain or a frosty wind or of well water... and at the same time it had warmth, but not as bergamot, cypress, or musk has, or jasmine or daffodils, not as rosewood has or iris... This scent was a blend of both, of evanescence and substance, not a blend, but a unity, although slight and frail as well, and yet solid and sustaining, like a piece of thin, shimmering silk... and yet again not like silk, but like pastry soaked in honey-sweet milk - and try as he would he couldn't fit those two together: milk and silk! This scent was inconceivable, indescribable, could not be categorized in any way - it really ought not to exist at all. And yet there it was as plain and splendid as day.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume The Story of a Murderer

“How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.”
― Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

“إن تعاسة الإنسان تنتج من كونه لا يريد أن يقبع ساكناً في غرفته هناك حيث يجب أن يكون.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“ندرة من البشر يُلْهـِمون الحب، وهؤلاء سيكونون ضحاياه.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Das Unglück des Menschen rührt daher, daß er nicht still in seinem Zimmer bleiben will, dort, wo er hingehört. Sagt Pascal. Aber Pascal”
― Patrick Süskind, Das Parfum

“Мышление, - говорит мой друг, с двaдцaти двух лет он изучaет философию и теперь зaщищaет диссертaцию, - мышление - это слишком сложный процесс, чтобы быть доступным любому дилетaнту". Сaм он, к примеру, никогдa не смог бы сесть зa рояль и сыгрaть "Хaммерклaвир". Потому что он этого не умеет. Но кaждый уверен, что может мыслить, и он мыслит непрестaнно, и это сaмaя большaя ошибкa нaшего времени, утверждaет мой друг, отсюдa и проистекaют все эти кaтaстрофы, которые в конце концов нaс погубят, всех вместе. И я вaм скaжу, он прaв.”
― Patrick Süskind

“Hiç kimse bilmiyor bu parfümün aslında ne kadar iyi olduğunu, diye düşündü. Ne kadar iyi yapılmış olduğunu kimse bilmiyor. Ötekiler, sadece etkisine köle oluyor. Hatta kendilerini etkileyip büyüleyen şeyin parfüm olduğunu bilmiyorlar bile! Gerçek güzelliğini anlamış anlayacak tek kişi benim, çünkü ben yarattım onu. Aynı zamanda, büyüleyemeyeceği tek kişi de benim. Parfümün kendisi için anlam taşımadığı tek kişiyim ben.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Um kleine, aber reizende Gärten, in denen Oleander und Palmen gediehen und zierliche, von Rabatten umfaßte Springbrunnen gurgelten, dehnten sich, meist U-förmig nach Süden gebaut, die eigentlichen Flügel der Anwesen aus: sonnendurchflutete, seidentapetenbespannte Schlafgemächer in den Obergeschossen, prächtige mit exotischem Holz getäfelte Salons zu ebener Erde und Speisesäle, bisweilen terrassenhaft ins Freie vorgebaut, in denen tatsächlich, wie Baldini erzählt hatte, mit goldenem Besteck von porzellanenen Tellern gegessen wurde.”
― Patrick Süskind, Das Parfum

“El sueño habría puesto en peligro el espíritu del éxito”
― Patrick Süskind