„Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he’s been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.“

— Tove Jansson

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„The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. “
— Louis Armstrong
„… memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?… the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it—only then—for the first time.“
— Cesare Pavese
„To detach yourself elegantly from the world; to give contour and grace to sadness; a solitude in style; a walk that gives cadence to memories; stepping towards the intangible; with the breath in the trembling margins of things; the past reborn in the overflow of fragrances; the smell, through which we conquer time; the contour of the invisible things; the forms of the immaterial; to deepen yourself in the intangible; to touch the world airborne by smell; aerial dialogue and gliding dissolution; to bathe in your own reflecting fragmentation…“
— Emil M. Cioran
„A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.“
— Stephen King