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• My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

  Kate Morton

  Eye, Dust, Soul

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Flower, Produce, Crushed

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Magic Study”, p.406, MIRA

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• And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you." The wind stirred the leaves of the chestnut trees nearby, and the scents of late summer rose up rich around us; pine and grass and strawberries, sun-warmed stone and cool water, and the sharp, musky smell of his body next to mine. "Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed." "That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose. "No," he said. "That's faith.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Summer, Wind, Law

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.3834, Delacorte Press

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• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Song, Stars

  "Les misérables".

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• God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Mules, Stubbornness

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.

  Eve Curie

  Science, Animal, Disease

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• Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

  Olive Schreiner

  Love, Flower, Blood

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.208, Courier Corporation

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• On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes of the magnificent public garden of the city of Nancy make the words reverberate; coupling, condensation, grignardization. Moreover, their clothes stay impregnated with strong and characteristic odours; we follow the initiates of Hermes by their scent. In such an environment, how is it possible not to be productive?

  Victor Grignard

  Strong, Science, Garden

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• Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Rain, Love You

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath being tainted by the stench of dying cells. The smell of him seemed to coat my abused insides with peace, and flow down into the middle of my body to spread through my veins. I filled my lungs again. While I could, before what was undoubtedly a hallucination vanished.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Cells, Smell, Dying

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• A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?

  Pam Brown

  Gratitude, Children, Flower

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• One day, lad, your eyes will light upon a woman, and you will never forget that glint in her eye, that toss of her head, or sway of her hips. You will dream of her, whether you are asleep of awake. She will possess your mind, and your body will be on fire for her. Nothing will ever erase the linger of her scent in your nostrils, the touch of her hand on your body, the feel of her flesh beneath your fingers. When you find a woman to love, Cnut, your life changes forever.

  Helen Hollick

  Dream, Life Changing, Eye

  Helen Hollick (2004). “A Hollow Crown: The Story of Emma, Queen of Saxon England”, William Heinemann

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• ...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Children, Flower

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

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• When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Gratitude, Welcome, Subtle

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• Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet.

  Saint Augustine

  Time, Son, Fire

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• Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself

  Anne Hathaway

  Clothes, Long, Way

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• Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one's voice.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Gratitude, Rain, Simple

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• Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

  Jules Verne

  Flower, Sea, Soul

  Jules Verne (2003). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.312, Bantam Classics

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• On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

  Honore de Balzac

  Friends, Dog, True Friend

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• Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Strong, Real, Evil

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• I could really appreciate him now - could properly see every beautiful line of his perfect face, of his long, flawless body with my strong new eyes, every angle and every plane of him. I could taste his pure, vivid scent on my tongue and feel the unbelievable silkiness of his marble skin under my sensitive fingertips.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Strong, Eye

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• Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.

  Ali Smith

  Air, Smell, Tonight

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• I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and movement of the water and sky, by the sounds and scents and gentle stirrings that were all about me.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Sea, Fishing, Sky

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• I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Smell, Rose

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1242, Wordsworth Editions

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• Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Children, Practice

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.435, Ravenio Books

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