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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 a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who couldn't defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust and lust, love and hate. He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

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People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

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How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.

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He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

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He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

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