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“মানুষের স্বভাব হলো, কেউ যখন ভালোবাসে তখন নানান কর্মকাণ্ড করে সেই ভালোবাসা বাড়িয়ে দিতে ইচ্ছে করে, আবার কেউ যখন রেগে যায় তখন তার রাগটাও বাড়িয়ে দিতে ইচ্ছা করে।”
― Humayun Ahmed, আঙুল কাটা জগলু

“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“You misinterpret everything, even the silence.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“Since I met you, I've felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“মেয়েমানুষের এরকম হয়, ওরকম হয়, সব রকম হয়, শুধু মনের মত হয় না।”
― Manik Bandopadhyay, পুতুলনাচের ইতিকথা

“জীবনকে শ্রদ্ধা না করিলে জীবন আনন্দ দেয় না।শ্রদ্ধার সঙ্গে আনন্দের বিনিময়,জীবনদেবতার এই রীতি।”
― Manik Bandopadhyay, পুতুলনাচের ইতিকথা

“Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it matter if its distinctiveness is lost? Need we be so attached to it? What's the harm if everyone on earth shares the same thoughts and feelings, if they stand under a single banner of laws and regulations? What if we can't be recognized as Indians any more? Where's the harm in that? No one can object if we declare ourselves to be citizens of the world. Is that any less glorious?”
― Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay

“Women's liberty", "women's independence" are words on everybody's lips these days, but they stay on the lips and don't go any further. Do you know why? I've found out that liberty can be obtained neither by theoretical arguments, nor by pleading justice and morality, nor by staging a concerted quarrel with men at a meeting. It's something that no one can give to another - not something to be owed or paid as a due. ..you can easily understand that it comes of its own accord - through one's own fulfillment, by the enlargement of one's own soul.”
― Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

“Even today, regardless of the quarrels women may pick in the cause of emancipation, the reality is that, in the present world order, it's the men who eventually grant emancipation, not we women. ... it's the masters who freed the slave of the world, people belonging to the masterclass who fought for the cause. The slaves didn't earn their freedom by wrangling or arguing. That's the way things are. It's the law of the world: the strong emancipate the weak from the bondage of the strong. So also, men alone can liberate women. The responsibility lies with them.”
― Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

“অতীত মুছে ফেলার শ্রেষ্ঠ উপায় হচ্ছে স্থান পালটানো”
― Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

“No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Half of tradition is a lie.”
― Stephen Crane

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains”
― Joseph Heller

“যাহাকে ভালবাসি, সে যদি ভাল না বাসে, এমন কি ঘৃণাও করে, তাও বোধ করি সহ্য হয়, কিন্তু যাহার ভালবাসা পাইয়াছি বলিয়া বিশ্বাস করিয়াছি, সেইখানে ভুল ভাঙ্গিয়া যাওয়াটাই নিদারুন। পূর্বেরটা ব্যথাই দেয়, কিন্তু শেষেরটা ব্যথাও দেয়, অপমানও করে। আবার এ ব্যথার প্রতিকার নাই, এ অপমানের নালিশ নাই।”
― Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, चरित्रहीन

“যে ভালবাসে, তাহাকে ঘৃণা করার অপবাদ দেওয়ার মত গুরুতর শাস্তি আর নাই, এ কথা ভালবাসাই বলিয়া দেয়।”
― Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, গৃহদাহ

“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch