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• In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

  Yosa Buson

  Far Away, Moonlight, Wisteria

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• The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

  D. H. Lawrence

  Autumn, November, Beast

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4223, Delphi Classics

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• The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

  Ian Fleming

  Morning, Sweat, Three

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.

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• This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dark, Mouths, Fields

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• And she arose from her deathbed in a gossamer gown, with eyes the color of starlight and hair as black as the night. And those who were her captors trembled, for the scent of death and madness emanated from her soul, and yet she was not dead. She moved like the spiders that creep in the treetops, and none could look away. Taking her first captor in hand, she fed deep and ravenous. And so it was that Myst, Queen of the Indigo Court, was born from the blood of the dead.

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Queens, Eye, Night

  Yasmine Galenorn (2010). “Night Myst”, p.13, Penguin

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• Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Long, Alive

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• I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

  Walt Whitman

  Prayer, Believe, Miracle

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.53, Delphi Classics

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• The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Garden, Light

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.7, First Avenue Editions

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• When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

  John Irving

  Death, Grief, Loss

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Children, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.

  Laini Taylor

  Color, Missing, Sunrise

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• Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world.

  Christopher Paolini

  Night, Wind, World

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• So, Bella, I was following your scent through the woods after I'd left your room where I was watching you sleep...Yes that would be quite the ice breaker.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sleep, Ice, Would Be

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• I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them - the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

  Thomas Merton

  Sweet, College, Years

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

  Steven Millhauser

  Summer, Cutting, Long

  Steven Millhauser (2008). “Dangerous Laughter”, p.62, Vintage

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• I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

  Albert Einstein

  Priorities, Mind, Essentials

  "Albert Einstein: Philosopher-scientist".

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• Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.

  Otto Wallach

  Oil, Substance, Mixtures

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• Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

  Tahir Shah

  Struggle, Adversity, Air

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• Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.

  Catulle Mendes

  Smell, Doe, Glorious

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• A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Smell, Strenght, Weakness

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.311, Ballantine Books

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• I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

  Johnny Cash

  Appreciation, Sea Breeze, Sun

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• A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

  Rebecca Wells

  Smell, Exotic, Delight

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sight, Smell, Odor

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1858). “The literati”, p.515

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• August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

  Jean Hersey

  Weed, Sweet, Garden

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

  Richard Flanagan

  Sleep, Love Is, Breaths

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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