... memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. (Vladimir Nabokov)

... memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Vladimir Nabokov

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