“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't 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
“Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.”
― Damned
― Damned
“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. ”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
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