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

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Past Quotes #Smell Quotes

“Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.”
“The only thing I really like doing during the week is getting ready to play the game.”
“Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.”
“There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.”
“For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2009). “Constructions: Making Sense of Things”, Faber & Faber
“Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.”
“In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die.”
“Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice”

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