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Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?

Louis Sachar
five-sensessmelltaste

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

Louise Wilder
smellgardennature

...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materiality” -luce irigaray

Luce Irigaray
smelldistanceeye

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

Lucian Freud
smellspaceair

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.

Lucien Bourjeily
smelltheatreplay
Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I... by Lucy Liu

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

Lucy Liu
vintageboyfriendsmell

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
smellvioletworld

Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.

Luther Standing Bear
smellnative-americanchildren

When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction.

L'Wren Scott
smellcreatingthinking
I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of... by Lucy Maud Montgomery

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
smellflowerdark

Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.

M. Ageyev
kitchensmelllust
The smell of good bread baking, by M. F. K. Fisher

The smell of good bread baking,

M. F. K. Fisher
smellfoodwater

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

M. Ward
smellchildhoodable
I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they... by Lucy Maud Montgomery

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
smellwishbeautiful

My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'

Madchen Amick
smelldadflower

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

Madeline Miller
smellfeetlove

I dont wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. Thats basically what I smell like.

Mads Mikkelsen
deodorantsmellshowers
Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while th... by Mahmoud Darwish

Nothing is harder on the soul, than the smell of dreams, while they're evaporating.

Mahmoud Darwish
smellsouldream

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

Maggie Stiefvater
smelleyeislands

I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger

Maggie Stiefvater
smellbreathingnew-life
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