💬 Quotes
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"L'amour est le plus beau de tous les arts, mais c'est aussi le plus terrible."
— Le fantôme de l'opéraby Gaston Leroux
"Il y a dans la musique une force mystérieuse qui peut bouleverser les âmes les plus fermes."
— Le fantôme de l'opéraby Gaston Leroux
"La laideur peut se cacher sous le masque, mais la beauté de l'âme finit toujours par transparaître."
— Le fantôme de l'opéraby Gaston Leroux
"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."
— Das Parfumby Andrew Birkin
"He possessed a wunderkind's absolute pitch for odors; he recognized every scent, remembered it once he had smelled it, and never forgot anything he had ever smelled."
— Das Parfumby Andrew Birkin
"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 the brother of breath."
— Das Parfumby Andrew Birkin
"He had not created this scent to seduce them, nor to be loved by them, no, to mock them. He wanted to show them that he was like them, that he was better than them, that he was a god."
— Das Parfumby Andrew Birkin
"The heart of man is like a labyrinth, and those who try to find their way through its twists and turns often lose themselves entirely."
— Das Parfumby Andrew Birkin
"They were so intoxicated, so deeply enchanted, that the last remnants of their reason dissolved. And the reaction of the crowd was as unified as it was terrifying."
— Das Parfumby Andrew Birkin
"A part of all you earn is thine to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn."
— The Richest Man in Babylonby George Samuel Clason
"Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar."
— The Richest Man in Babylonby George Samuel Clason
"Where the determination is, the way can be found."
— The Richest Man in Babylonby George Samuel Clason
"Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper coin that you save is the seed from which shall grow the tree of wealth."
— The Richest Man in Babylonby George Samuel Clason
"Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task to a successful completion."
— The Richest Man in Babylonby George Samuel Clason
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
— Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling