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There is no way in which to understand the world without first det

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman

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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

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

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The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense. – Source Unknown

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. – Denis Diderot

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Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape. – Mervyn Peake

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I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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