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“A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.”
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“Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.”
Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, eBookIt.com
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“Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.”
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“We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.”
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“We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.”
Source : Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”
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“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?”
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“He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.”
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“No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.”
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“There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.”
