Quotes with scent

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• A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

  W. H. Auden
  American poet (1907 - 1973)
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• I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

  Andrew Motion
   
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• Like a beautiful flower full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.

  Buddha
  Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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• Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

  Olive Schreiner
  South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• distinctive
• generalized
• accordingly
• beautiful
• fruitless
• blood-red

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