“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”

—  Patrick Süskind

Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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German writer and screenwriter 1949

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