- Nov 07, 2020
Smell Quotes
On scent, memory, and what lingers.
These lines connect smell to memory and perception—an old observation that scent revives the past more vividly than almost anything else, a classic literary point about names not changing a thing's true nature, and even the idea that music, unlike smell, leaves no physical trace. It ties into our Feel theme.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum used Avon Skin So Soft oil when I was younger. She would have a bath, and then the smell used to fill the whole house.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elephants are very sensitive to smell and they tend to recognise us by our body odour.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Debussy is one of the few composers who actually created a new sound on the piano - or perhaps we should say a new smell, so perfumed are the vibrations which emanate from the instrument.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.
- Foreign Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without sulfites, wine may smell and taste funky or re-ferment in the bottle. Many distributors and shop owners are consequently reluctant to stock wines made without sulfites.
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- Nov 07, 2020