The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. – Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season, 1973

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. – Michel de Montaigne

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought. – Basile