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“Perfume is the art that makes memory speak”

Art Speak Memories Perfume Making Memories

Author:Francis Kurkdjian

“To smell, though well, is to stink.”

Wells Smell Perfume Stink

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.”

Feelings Building Stones Satisfaction Poison Chemistry Perfume Dissatisfaction Explosives Opiates Stimulants

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.”

House Gold Trade West Heavy Oil East Finance Ingredients Communist Yellow Metals Pale Perfume Moscow Collateral Bulgaria Pale Yellow

Author:S. J. Perelman

“The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.”

Age Young Girl Hours Poor Drink Gay Finals Unhappy Old Age Happy Life Perfume Creeps Wreaths Unhappy Life

Author:Juvenal

“After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.”

Doe Dark Flower Garden Delight Soil Butterfly Worms Perfume Gardener Tasting Intoxicated Spicy

Book:The Gardener's Year

Source: The Gardener's Year

“You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?”

Want Behavior Caught Perfume

Book:Letters to Susan

Source: Letters to Susan

“I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.”

Hands Lost Childhood Flower Perfume

Author:Gabriela Mistral

“She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.”

God Helping Needed Humorous Meetings Phones Telephones Perfume Answering Machines Needed Help

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.”

Giving Funny Sex Natural Pleasure Sun Flower Bed Humorous Vices Heat Perfume

Book:Cakes and Ale

Source: Cakes and Ale

“Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.”

Matter Culture Games Easy Watches Tvs Degrees Clothes Western Dinner Locals Contemporary Paris Zero Lunch Perfume Mcdonalds Cuisine Hong Kong Reggae Eclectic Tokyo Retro

Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard

“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”

Love Literature Love Is Plant Ruins Perfume Springtime

Book:The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

“I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.”

Dark Female Smell Scent Perfume Find Me Stink

Author:Janet Fitch

“If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.”

People Ifs Looks Children I Can Play Home Remember Used Mother Winning Party Race Dresses Restaurants Chickens Take Me Perfume Old People Carpet Crystals Violin Scarlet Beads

Author:Celia Imrie