He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!
("Perfume: The Story of a Murderer")
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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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He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.
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He looks as if he were three or four; looks just like one of those unapproachable, incomprehensible, willful little prehuman creatures, who in their ostensible innocence think only of themselves, who want to subordinate the whole world to their despotic will, and would do it, too, if one let them pursue their megalomaniacal ways and did not apply the strictest pedagogical principles to guide them to a disciplined, self-controlled, fully human existence.
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