“The fatally short sided habit of our age is to think only in terms of large numbers and organizations. Though one would think the world had seen enough of what a well disciplined mob can do in the hands of a single mad man.”
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“I stared at her winkles, which all seemed to be vertical, as if she'd been downstream to something terrible her whole life.”
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“For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they could not escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who could not defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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