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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

  Arundhati Roy

  Memories, Posterity

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.99, Penguin Books India

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• The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Memories, Mind, Photograph

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Nature, Strong, Scent

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• If you smell something, say something.

  Jon Stewart

  Ifs

  "Jon Stewart Tells Viewers to Be Vigilant Against "Bullshit" in Star-Filled 'Daily Show' Finale" by Hilary Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 6, 2015.

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• If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

  Thomas Mann

  Ideas, Possessed, Ifs

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.95, Vintage

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• The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

  Lewis Thomas

  Memories, Thinking, Perception

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• I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Air, Agreement, Conservative

  1990 Describing the western attitude to the Gulf crisis. In The Independent, 31 Oct.

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• The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Love, Jealous, Betrayed

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• As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Garden, Meat

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• Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

  George Meredith

  Death, Nature, Garden

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.203

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Vision, Scent

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.5, Vintage

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• Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Cute Funny, Liberty

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• The smell of good bread baking,
  like the sound of lightly flowing water,
  is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Water, Sound

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• Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

  Hippocrates

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Hippocrates (1931). “Hippocrates”

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• It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

  Lena Horne

  Nice, Flower, Fragrance

  People Magazine, November 10, 1980.

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• Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Food, Two, Dust

  Evelyn Waugh (1930). “Labels: A Mediterranean Journal”

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• Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Food, Volcanoes

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• The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Love, Romantic, Boyfriend

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• Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Hot, Scent

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1911). “The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches”

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• The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

  Louise Wilder

  Nature, Garden, Scent

  Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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• O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
  What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Touching, Texture, Flavor

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• A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

  Eddie Cantor

  Marriage, Wedding, Flower

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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