"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
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"Smell is the sense of memory and desire."
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"The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge."
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"You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?"
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"Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another."
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"Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon."
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"For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little."
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"I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?"
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"I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing."
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"I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart"
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"Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious."
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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."
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"The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! - breathe dead hippo, so as to speak, and not be contaminated. And there, don't you see? your strength comes in, the faith in your ability for the digging of unostentatious holes to bury the stuff in - your power of devotion, not to yourself, but to an obscure, back-breaking business."
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"To smell, though well, is to stink."
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"If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology."
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"It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad."
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"The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick."
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"I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell."
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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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"Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding."
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