„… 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

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„Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.“
— Arundhati Roy
„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
„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