"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains."

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Source : "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

Diane Ackerman

#Summer Quotes #Nature Quotes #Memorable Quotes

“Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.”
“Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.”

Source : Andy Weir (2017). “The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books
“I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.”

Source : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.162, Penguin
“He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.463
“Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it ...”
“A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.”
“A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.”

Source : Lee Roberson (2000). “Double-Breasted”, p.18, Sword of the Lord Publishers
“All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.”

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