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Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock...

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Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of ...

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Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from so...

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Ian FlemingDiamonds Are Forever

Our foyer has a funny smell that doesn't smell like anyplace else. I don't know what the hell it is....

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."On...

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Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking- glass, that night when he got back ...

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Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were bu...

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When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and...

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But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of thing...

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I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the c...

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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-de...

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Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in...

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Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

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He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I cl...

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In your Curled petals what ghosts Of blue headlands and seas, What perfumed immortal breath sighing ...

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I love the smell of paper in the morning it smells like victory.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to...

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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of ...

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A man should smell of sweat, not flowers.