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This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping the top trees with light. The sky is clear and shining as a china plate and the water playfully

This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping the top trees with light. The sky is clear and shining as a china plate and the water playfully ruffled with wind. Every wisp of fog is gone and the air is full of the resinous smell of the trees. Seabirds are flashing above the sails golden like creatures from Heaven, but the sailors raise a few shots to keep them from the rigging.

Alice Munro
Smell, Light, Hair
Alice Munro (2011). “New Selected Stories”, p.322, Random House

Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.

Ali Smith
Air, Smell, Tonight

He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.

Alexandra Bracken
Girl, Jobs, Smell

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

Alexandra Bracken
Hair, Smell, Wizards

Some people eat the tuna, some people roll it up into a ball. Also, the sort of disgusting texture and smell, I think, adds something to the experience.

Alex Timbers
Thinking, Smell, People
Source: www.avclub.com

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

Alber Elbaz
Past, Smell, People
Source: www.marieclaire.com

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Alan Bennett
Smell, Confusing, Library
Alan Bennett (2017). “The History Boys: With GCSE and A Level study guide”, p.30, Faber & Faber

Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner), having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others ("autrui", Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.

African Spir
Smell, Intuition, Trying
"Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 43), 1937.

The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!

Adam Gidwitz
Air, Sweat, Smell
Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.26, Penguin

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