“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
“… 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, book Mary
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