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“There is a stranger who is more than a friend, and a friend who is worse than a stranger.”
― The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
― The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“Notes of the same key respond to one another;
Odors of the same nature merge together.
Water flows toward what is wet,
Fire rises toward what is dry.
Clouds follow dragons;
Winds follow tigers.”
― The Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation
Odors of the same nature merge together.
Water flows toward what is wet,
Fire rises toward what is dry.
Clouds follow dragons;
Winds follow tigers.”
― The Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation
“My body needs it—the hot baths, the care, the soft water, the perfume, the warmth. I take on the colors of the flowers, the bloom, the delicacy. It becomes me.”
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“Smell was our first sense, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from our olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled.”
― A Natural History of the Senses
― A Natural History of the Senses
“The empress of the perfumer's palette, jasmine must be harvested before the rising sun to retain the full force of its delicate fragrance. Fragile and fleeting, jasmine is a fair nymph of a flower with a potent perfume. A world without jasmine? Simply unimaginable. -DB”
― Scent of Triumph
― Scent of Triumph
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