Perfume: The Story of a Murderer quotes | Love Quotes | Page 4

Home Tags Perfume: The Story of a Murderer quotes

For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.
― Patrick Süskind,
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to...

- 18th September 2020 0

1...345 6 Page 4 of 6