He possessed the power. He ...

He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.
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 Patrick Süskind

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He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!
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 Patrick Süskind
And 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.
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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.
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...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
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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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