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> [“Chauvet Cave: The Discovery of the World’s Oldest Paintings, Jean-Marie Chauvet”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/chauvet-cave-the-discovery-of-the-world-s-oldest-paintings-jean-marie/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

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## More by Victoria Finlay

> [Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/throughout-asia-and-europe-pearls-were-traditionally-believed-to-ease/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/in-precious-opals-there-might-be-a-dash-of-red-here-a-seductive-swirl/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [“The Jewish historian Hannah Arendt, in her book about the trial of Nazi administrator Adolf Eichmann, observes that in many cases the Nazi camps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/the-jewish-historian-hannah-arendt-in-her-book-about-the-trial-of/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [“Ezekiel looked into amber and saw God, but the Teutonic Knights saw something less noble: gold.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/ezekiel-looked-into-amber-and-saw-god-but-the-teutonic-knights-saw/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [“Emily Kame Kngwarreye”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/emily-kame-kngwarreye/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [“…in Pliny’s time, it was believed that only the blood of a newly sacrificed kid, or lamb, could shatter a diamond. Pliny wondered—as many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/in-pliny-s-time-it-was-believed-that-only-the-blood-of-a-newly/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [“Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/like-pearls-that-cannot-be-sprayed-too-much-with-perfume-or-warmed/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/patterns-drawn-in-ultraviolet-might-make-those-ordinary-little-petals/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [“Sometimes the mind is cruel: it tells us we are worth no more than our possessions, and that without them we would be nothing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/sometimes-the-mind-is-cruel-it-tells-us-we-are-worth-no-more-than-our/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/human-life-is-fragile-we-live-in-the-space-between-one-breath-and-the/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [“The probable reason that nobody at Mikimoto wanted a writer to go to the pearl farms of Ago…was because something terrible was happening in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/the-probable-reason-that-nobody-at-mikimoto-wanted-a-writer-to-go-to/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/i-realized-it-was-like-a-dating-agency-the-ions-are-the-lost-souls/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/in-1879-the-bengali-scholar-s-m-tagore-compiled-a-more-extensive-list/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [“Chauvet Cave: The Discovery of the World’s Oldest Paintings, Jean-Marie Chauvet”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/chauvet-cave-the-discovery-of-the-world-s-oldest-paintings-jean-marie/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

> [“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victoria-finlay/if-bacchus-ever-had-a-color-he-could-claim-for-his-own-it-should/)

[Victoria Finlay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victoria-finlay/)

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