Gabriel Marcel
Philosopher, Playwright
"Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics."
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Scent
99 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."
Stella Adler
Actress, Director
"You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from."
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates."
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"The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself."
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"I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents."
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"Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent."
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"I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down."
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"What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some."
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"I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades."
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"The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life."
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"This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark."
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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."
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"I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible."
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"The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear"
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"When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not."
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"As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons."
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"God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent."
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"My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses."
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"Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses"
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"There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent."
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"I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one."
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"I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires."
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"The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky."
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