Grenouille Quotes

• 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.

  Patrick Süskind

  Heart, Eye, Dark

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• Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your limbs. When the crowd is finally tired of your screams and wandered home, I will climb up through your blood and sit beside you. I will look deep into your eyes... and drop by drop I will trickle my disgust into them like burning acid until... finally... you perish.

  Patrick Süskind

  Eye, Home, Tired

  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste.
  The biologist passes, the frog remains.

  Jean Rostand

  Frogs, Facts, Biologist

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• I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d'un biologiste." There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear.

  Frank Kermode

  Science, Doors, Differences

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• I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

  Ben Whishaw

  Couple, Desire, Hell

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

  Ann Landers

  Fashion, Lunch, Causes

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