“opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“How many powerful memories are triggered by smell and taste? Your mother’s old perfume, the smell your father’s breath, the taste of the soap they’d make you eat.”
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
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Miguel de Unamuno
(1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), II : The Starting-Point
Context: Knowledge is employed in the service of the necessity of life and primarily in the service of the instinct of personal preservation. The necessity and this instinct have created in man the organs of knowledge and given them such capacity as they possess. Man sees, hears, touches, tastes and smells that which it is necessary for him to see, hear, touch, taste and smell in order to preserve his life. The decay or loss of any of these senses increases the risks with which his life is environed, and if it increases them less in the state of society in which we are actually living, the reason is that some see, hear, touch, taste and smell for others. A blind man, by himself and without a guide, could not live long. Society is an additional sense; it is the true common sense.
“166. Of all smells, bread; of all tasts, salt.”
George Herbert
(1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.”
Source: The Book Thief