There is a gem in the footnote right below gggijgziifiiffif, where it says it's possible to make a perl error quine by writing this line to the right location:

    Illegal division by zero at /tmp/quine.pl line 1.

I just tried this perl 5.42.0, and any file name starting with a '/' will work.

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40202182

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576872

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/48394

I'm afraid I have to tell you you lack the soul of a poet to truly appreciate the brilliant design . Perl is magic (like litteraly). I'm fairly sure it's one of the untold inspiration of the Harry Potter books