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“He had learned to extend the journey from his mental notion of a scent to the finished perfume by way of writing down the formula.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“The Haunting was the feeling you got sometimes, in the Vurt, the real world calling you home. There's more to life than this. This is just a game.”
― Vurt
― Vurt
“Deliberately shorn of all that makes for mere effect, Isak stands out as an elemental figure, the symbol of Man at his best, face to face with Nature and life. There is no greater human character—reverently said—in the Bible itself.”
― Growth of the Soil
― Growth of the Soil
“I picture him always like he’s looking at us through glass—windshields, sliding patio doors.”
― Dare Me
― Dare Me
“All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own pattern ms and influence other people’s, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.”
― The Wasp Factory
― The Wasp Factory
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