Smell Quote by Martin Amis

“What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What kind of gulag…

— Sergio Troncoso

“Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal…

— Anton Chekhov

“We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must…

— Primo Levi

“The supermarket proved to be far stronger than the gulag.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Washing your hands of something requires soap.”

— Craig D Lounsbrough

“You are diseased in understanding and religion. Come to me, that you may hear something of sound truth. Do not unjustly eat fish the…

— Anonymous

“Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive…

— William Carlos Williams

“I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the…

— Neil Gaiman

“Repression was the favored food of heresy.”

— Greg Keyes

“In the Gulag Archipelago there are no heroes or villains. No prince or pauper. It is the most democratic of all societies. Everyone is…

— Kati Marton

“There are two kinds of prison in the gulag. One is for prisoners sentenced to ‘revolutionary re-education through labour’. If they survive their punishment…

— Hyeonseo Lee

“As I followed the chief waiter with my eyes, I could not help thinking that the garden in which he had gradually blown to…

— Charles Dickens