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Patrick Süskind est un écrivain et scénariste allemand. Il est né le 26 mars 1949 à Ambach à côté du lac de Starnberg , en Bavière près de Munich. Il a grandi dans le village bavarois de Holzhausen.

Il étudie l’histoire et la littérature à Munich et à Aix-en-Provence. Il travaille ensuite comme scénariste pour la télévision.

Il écrit une pièce de théâtre à un personnage : La Contrebasse, qui sera jouée pour la première fois à Munich en 1981. Elle sera publiée en 1984. Depuis sa création, cette pièce est régulièrement jouée en Allemagne et a également été interprétée à Paris par Jacques Villeret dans le rôle-titre.

Le Parfum est son premier roman édité en 1985 à Zurich, sous le titre Das Parfum, Die Geschichte eines Mörders, puis publié en France en 1986 aux éditions Fayard dans une traduction de Bernard Lortholary. Il vaut à son auteur un succès mondial. Il a d'ailleurs fait l'objet d'une adaptation au cinéma en 2006 : Le Parfum, Histoire d'un meurtrier. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. mars 1949  •  Autres noms پاتریک زوسکیند

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Patrick Süskind citations célèbres

“Cet homme paraissait être tellement fatigué de sa vie qu'il ne voulait même pas vivre ses dernières heures éveillé.”

Patrick Süskind livre Le Parfum

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Une contrebasse, c'est plutôt, comment dire, un embarras qu'un instrument.”

Patrick Süskind livre La Contrebasse

La Contrebasse, 1992

“Dans son immobilité, il avait l'air d'être son propre inventaire.”

Patrick Süskind livre Le Parfum

Le Parfum, 1986

“Être soi-même un gros alambic qui inonderait le monde des parfums qu'il aurait créés seul, tel était le rêve fou auquel s'abandonnait Grenouille.”

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Patrick Süskind: Citations en anglais

“He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“… he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.”

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Patrick Süskind livre The Pigeon

Source: The Pigeon

“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else. So, to hell with it he thought. To hell with the world. With the perfume. With himself”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“… talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

“How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.”

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Patrick Süskind livre The Pigeon

Source: The Pigeon

“And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.”

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Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!”

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Patrick Süskind

Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer