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“He comes to realise that people fall into three camps: those who hardly, if ever, see beauty, even when it strikes them between the eyes; those who recognise it only when it is made apparent to them; and those rare souls who find beauty everywhere they turn, even in the most unexpected places.”

“An unwavering pendulum swings between day and night. Light and shadow. Good and bad. Perhaps it is the same with past and present - they are not completely distinct. They bleed into each other.”

“Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.”

Finally reading books in Arabic!

“It was something completely new, capable of creating a whole world, a magical, rich world, and in an instance you forget all the loathsomeness around you and felt so rich, so at ease, so free, so fine…”

“He decided in favour of life out of sheer spite and sheer malice”

Same my dude

“… It seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”

“The buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.”

What in the Frankenstein’s monster is this 😥😭 what the hell

"She had held a pear in her hand and had eaten it skin and all. She had eaten the stem and she had eaten its seeds and she had eaten its core, and the hunger still sat in her like an open maw."

" And so it is that when we are unhappy we more strongly feel the unhappiness of others; feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated..."

“Oh let’s not think about it let’s have this just for now we will only live now and what comes will come and we won’t think about it…”

“You will ask, perhaps, what does he dream about? Why ask that? About everything…”

Ugh the dreamer’s monologue is making me feel sick out of sadness 💔

Holy shit!!!!

What an end to the first section of the book?!

God damn… oh my god

“ She belonged to the house in the sense that she had nothing else, no other life than the house, but the house, by itself, did not belong to her. “

“Is it because of some billowing whiteness within us, unsullied, inviolate, that our encounters with objects so pristine never fail to leave us moved?”

“Why did the possibility of such mishaps, which after all in real life are not without fixes, fill me with the kind of dread appropriate to a real calamity?”