Quote by Diane Ackerman
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpecte

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. – Diane Ackerman

Other quotes by Diane Ackerman

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. – Diane Ackerman

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Love
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I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

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Life
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. – Joseph Addison

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Nature

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Nature

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. – Marquis de Sade

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Nature

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. – John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980

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Nature

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I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago. – Andrew Sullivan

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Love has no age, no limit and no death. – John Galsworthy

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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action. – W. Somerset Maugham

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. – Walt Whitman

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