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• It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

  Maya Angelou

  Morning, Writing, Heart

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• Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

  David Eagleman

  Sex, Age, Identity

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.105, Vintage

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• The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Lying, Smell

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.31

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• When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

  Ray Bradbury

  War, Wind, Cold

  Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dog, Lying

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• I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.9, Penguin

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• Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines)

  Kate Chopin

  Dog, Father, Distance

  Kate Chopin (2015). “The Awakening & Other Short Stories”, p.166, Booklassic

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• Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

  Patrick Süskind

  Stronger, Scent, Emotion

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• When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Breathing, Smell

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 08, 2014

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• Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.

  James Joyce

  Brain, Sound, Kissing Him

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• And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Doors, Smell, Doe

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.48, Bantam

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• While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Real, Eye, Men

  Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.

  Emilie Autumn

  Music, Thinking, Voice

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• Do you think you could put that boot back on?" he added mildly. "The window can only let in a limited ammount of fresh air and your socks are a tough ripe, to put it mildly." Oh, sorry!" said Horace, tugging the riding boot back on over his sock. Now that Halt mentioned it, he was aware of a rather strong odor in the room.

  John Flanagan

  Strong, Sorry, Thinking

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• A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Butterfly, Light

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.39, Penguin

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• He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sweet, Book, Character

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• NEVER! Never, Marge! I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?!

  Matt Groening

  Father, Cocky, Cities

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". TV Series "The Simpsons" ("Lisa's Rival"), (1989- ).

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• In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

  John Edward Williams

  Book, Library, Exotic

  John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”

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• The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

  Edward Abbey

  Rain, Fire, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.13, University of Arizona Press

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• Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Husband, Mirrors, Space

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• Guess who has PE first hour? This is so unfair. I start the day off perspiring like an elephant in heat. Don't the people who make up our schedule understand body odor? Don't they understand frizzy hair? ~Vee

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hair, Elephants, People

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Hunger And Thirst, Deafness

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• She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

  Shannon Hale

  Book, Dust, Smell

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.262, A&C Black

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• We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent.

  Nick Hornby

  Animal, Tanks, Littles

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.18, Penguin

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