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• Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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• I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets”. In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.

  Emma Forrest

  Notebook, Hair, Vogue Magazine

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.30, A&C Black

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• Certain miracles that I beheld there have haunted my memory ever since: a gray April morning of sirocco, when the almond blossoms, the flaming tulips, the young green of the vines, hung as if painted on the motionless air; a summer night when the roses had an unearthly pallor under a half-eaten moon, whose ghostliness was somehow one with their perfume and with the phosphorescence of dew tipping their petals; a day when the trees stood part submerged in fog, into which leaves dropped slowly, slowly, one after another, and sank out of sight.

  Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

  Summer, Morning, Memories

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• Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed,
  Which oft offends the very idol-vice,
  Whose shrine it would perfume.

  Elijah Fenton

  Weed, Idols, Vices

  "Mariamne: A Tragedy" by Elijah Fenton, (Act IV, Scene V, p. 46), 1723.

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• As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.

  Zoe Tapper

  Nibbling, Scent, Cheese

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• Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and the snow - soaked soil just warming into life.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Life, Nature, Spring

  Neltje Blanchan (1901). “Wild Flowers: An Aid to Knowledge of Nature's Garden ..”

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• When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume. Meanwhile he offended pious Jews with their strict preconceptions of what God should be like. Their rejection makes me wonder, could religious types be doing just the reverse now? Could we be perpetuating an image of Jesus that fits our pious expectations but does not match the person portrayed so vividly in the Gospels?

  Philip Yancey

  Religious, Jesus, Feet

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

  Plautus

  Smell, Wells

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• Make a sex tape, upload it, get on a reality show, release a perfume, retire. That's the new American dream.

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Dream, Sex

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• Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Gratitude, Art, Wall

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1905). “Old Fashioned Flowers: And Other Out-of-door Studies”

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• Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1927.

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• From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
  What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
  Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
  The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Eye, Angel

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• As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
  Float in the garden when no wind blows,
  Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
  So the old tunes float in my mind,
  And go from me leaving no trace behind,
  Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.

  Sara Teasdale

  Music, Blow, Garden

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Ozone, Said

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart: The Curse Workers”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [55]

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• The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

  Plautus

  Women

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• It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is. When it is present, it seems to be eternal, abiding forever, and there is no need to examine it or clutch it. Later, when it has evaporated, you stare in dismay at your empty palm, where only a little of the perfume lingers to prove that once it was there, and now is flown.

  Margaret George

  Focus, Forever, Swim

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.683, Pan Macmillan

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• Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cat, Animal

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a girl. I am a magician! Did you never think, even once, that I loved lipstick and rouge for more than their color alone? I am a student of their lore, and it is arcane and hermetic beyond the dreams of alchemists. Did you never wonder why I gave you so many pots, so many creams, so much perfume?

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Dream, Thinking

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.143, Macmillan

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• I'm not really keen on men wearing perfumes. It's just a bit wrong! I don't find it sexy. I prefer essential oils - patchouli is nice.

  Eva Green

  Sexy, Nice, Men

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• We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Horse, Flower

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• Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Real, Use

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• Jesus said when the woman poured the alabaster bottle of perfume on him that was worth almost a year's wages, and Judas, who was very money-minded, said you shouldn't have done that, because you're wasting that, we could have sold that and given it to the poor. And Jesus himself said, you will always have the poor with you, but she has done this as an honor to me, and she will be honored for it all of her days. And so you never run out of poor people. You could give everything you had, I could give everything I had, and the world would still be full of poor people.

  Joyce Meyer

  Running, Jesus, Years

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• I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.

  Carol Leifer

  Should, Testers, Audience

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• Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on its head despair! Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers The boldest and the strongest still was I. Although so fair, Therefore from Heaven A stronger perfume unto me was given Than any blossom of the summer hours.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Summer, Lying, Flower

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.32

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