Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.
Patrick SüskindHe was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.
Patrick SüskindAnd finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.
Patrick SüskindHe had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!
Patrick Süskind