
“En aquel momento habría podido elegir la segunda posibilidad que se le ofrecía, callar y recorrer el camino del nacimiento a la muerte sin el desvío de la vida, ahorrando con ello muchas calamidades a sí mismo y al mundo, pero tan prudente decisión habría requerido un mínimo de generosidad innata y Grenouille no la poseía. Fue un monstruo desde el mismo principio. Eligió la vida por pura obstinación y por pura maldad.”
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“but he would sit here just a moment longer while her eyes window-shopped, because it was good to look at her, and be with her.”
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“The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing at all supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary.”
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“on those days Ben would sometimes look sideways at Beverly, stealing her face, and his heart would both hurt desperately and somehow grow brighter at the same time.”
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“His fear was already gone; it had slipped away from him as easily as a nightmare slips away from a man who awakes,”
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