People are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but… - Patrick Süskind

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People are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes.

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Patrick Süskind (born 26 March 1949) is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published in 1985.

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Alternative Names: Patrick Suskind

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Erfindung war ihm sehr suspekt, denn sie bedeutete immer den Bruch einer Regel.

Even knowing that to possess that scent he must pay the terrible price of losing it again, the very possession and the loss seemed to him more desirable than a prosaic renunciation of both. For he had renounced things all his life. But never once had he possessed and lost.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

People are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes. - Patrick Süskind

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