„Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.“

— Vladimir Nabokov

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„… 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
„The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.“
— Margaret Atwood
„The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually in the past.“
— George Orwell