Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. - Vladimir Nabokov - Quotesmemo.com

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Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

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I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

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Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

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Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

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It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

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What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.

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