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

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.

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

He was in very truth his own God, and a more splendid God than the God that stank of incense and was quartered in churches.