💬 Quotes

"Tell me what you like, and I will tell you what you are."

"Él no era nadie. No era más que un recipiente vacío, una nada con forma humana que buscaba su identidad en el aroma."

"El perfume vive en el tiempo; tiene su juventud, su madurez y su vejez."

"Había una fuerza pura, una fuerza que se nutría de sí misma y no necesitaba de nadie para existir, salvo de la esencia que guardaba en su interior."

"Por primera vez en su vida, Grenouille se dio cuenta de que no era que el mundo no lo quisiera, sino que él era un fantasma que el mundo no podía reconocer."

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

"You are not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You are not the contents of your wallet."

"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

"The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club."

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."

"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact."

"Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming."

"I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell."

"It is a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it."

"Death is the mother of beauty. And what is beauty? The mark he leaves on the world, a mark that must fade."

"I felt my life was being stolen from me, or that I was being lured into a trap of my own making."

"If we were to be punished for all the things we did, the world would be a very small place, and we would be its only inhabitants."

"Call me Ishmael."

"It is not down on any map; true places never are."

"I leave a white whale's hump to be the target of my hatred."