Perfume Quotes - Page 17

• Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!

  Coco Chanel

  Want

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• Love Is the Treasure The temple of love is not love itself; True love is the treasure, Not the walls about it. Do not admire the decoration, But involve yourself in the essence, The perfume that invades and touches you- The beginning and the end. Discovered, this replaces all else, The apparent and the unknowable. Time and space are slaves to this presence.

  Rumi

  Wall, Love Is, Essence

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Temple Of Love”

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• It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

  Tom Waits

  Travel, Night, Flames

  Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco

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• My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Writing, Years, Everyday

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• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

  Helen Keller

  Song, Flower, Eye

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.11, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.

  Jim Hodges

  Titles, Scent, Might

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• And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes.It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna.

  Michael Frayn

  Summer, Song, Sweet

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• I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Butterfly, Bird, Together

  Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

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• Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

  Frances Mayes

  Orange, Fruit, Body

  Frances Mayes (1999). “Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy-and you believe them! It's such nonsense.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Beautiful, Wise, Sexy

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• [Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

  Nora Ephron

  Meaningful, Educational, College

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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• The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Flower, Hands

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.352

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• IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then, for Beyond Recovery, it is this quality of honesty, openness and surrender which communicates itself in the words and between them, administering not just to the mind but to the background of Awareness.

  Rupert Spira

  Honesty, Book, Recovery

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• You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

  Tom Robbins

  White, House, Genius

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.70, Bantam

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• Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Unhappy Person, Unhappiness

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.261, Bantam

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• I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

  Tom Robbins

  Journey, Men, East

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.62, Bantam

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• Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.

  Tom Robbins

  Hands, Zippers, Revolution

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.299, Bantam

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• She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.

  Tom Robbins

  God, Humorous, Phones

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.140, Bantam

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• The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

  Tom Robbins

  Beer, Lunch, Dancing

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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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, Odor, Scent

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• A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

  Tom Robbins

  Sense Of Humor, Still Life With Woodpecker, Superiors

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• Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Life, Birth

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.33, Bantam

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• You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Book, Writing

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