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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

From The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The smell of old books is a reminder of the past and the stories they hold.

From The Library Book by Susan Orlean

A great perfume is one that evokes a memory.

From The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr

The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

From The Periodic Table by Primo Levi