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Patrick Süskind

Patrick Süskind is a renowned German writer, born on March 26, 1949. He is best known for his novel 'Perfume', which has been adapted into a successful film, further enhancing his international fame. more

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“Non è, per essere precisi, che non si sentisse amato. Ma non capiva perché i suoi insistevano tanto sul fatto che “uscisse fuori dal suo guscio”. Che cosa c’era di male in un guscio? Le tartarughe sopravvivevano sulla Terra da oltre duecento milioni di anni, addirittura da più tempo dei serpenti e dei coccodrilli. E le tartarughe vivevano anche molto a lungo. Certe tartarughe americane, le tartarughe scatola, superavano i cent’anni e avevano una vista e un odorato eccellenti. Le tartarughe erano veramente degli animali straordinari. Cosa sarebbe successo se le persone le avessero obbligate a uscire dal loro guscio duecento milioni di anni prima? Molto probabilmente non esisterebbero più. "Lettere dall’universo", Rizzoli, 2019”

“I will not stop living my queerness out loud. I will not stop raining my good queer love down on the world until we all have a seat at the table. Until expressions of love and identity are met with the wonder with which we should meet all evidence of goodness in a world as harsh and lonely as this one can be. Until the glitter of generations of fragmented hearts just like mine are finally welcomed all the way home.”

“We are afraid that our failures will mean that we will not be loved. But we don’t earn love. How we treat others does, of course, affect our relationships. I do not want to be near the man who beat me. I do not trust a friend who has repeatedly lied to me. But we are loved for who we are, not for what we do. Love is larger than what we do. Love moves through us, if we let it. One day I realized that I could love someone and still decide to separate myself from them if our behaviour together was repeatedly damaging to each other. I did not have to stop loving him. And if I love another for who she is, not because she earns my love with her actions, and the same must also be true for those who love me. This isn’t a license to treat those who love us badly, but it helps us step off the endless treadmill of doing for others, trying to be what we think they want us to be, in an attempt to earn their love. It doesn’t work: we can’t earn love.”

“In every relationship, the deeper the connection goes and the longer the time that passes between the two together— the more and more levels will be dug up which equates to more and more boulders being discovered, more and more buried cities unearthed... people know that a good and real relationship is one that "gets better and better" but then they don't understand what that means. "Getting better and better" doesn't mean "feeling better and better", it doesn't mean there is nothing but honey and dewdrops. "Better and better" means "more and more accomplished together" it means "stronger together" it means herculean victories and lilliputian victories and falling and rising. If, for every time you fall together, you rise together twice, that is a good, real relationship.”