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“Unlike flowers, the animals he tried to macerate would not yield up their scent without complaints or with a mute sigh — they fought desperately against death…and in their fear of death created large quantities of sweat whose acidity ruined the warm oil… The objects would have to be quieted down, and so suddenly that they would have no time to become afraid or to resist. He would have to kill them.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“8. Marriage is filled with, among other things, laundry and unanswered questions.”
― Sherman Alexie, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“...you should know that in truth everyone is guilty before everyone else and for everything.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories of clues, announcements, intimations, but never the central truth itself…”
― Thomas Pynchon