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  • #1
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #2
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #3
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
    Leonardo DaVinci

  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #7
    Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
    “আমি যে তাকে ভালবাসি তা ওঁর রূপের জন্যও নয়, গুণের জন্যও নয়। ভাল না বেসে থাকতে পারি না বলে বাসি।”
    Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, গয়নার বাক্স

  • #8
    Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
    “দুটো শব্দ আছে, জানো! রমণীয় আর পরম। ওদের কাছে জীবন হল রমণীয়, আমাদের কাছে পরম।”
    Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

  • #9
    Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
    “ভালবাসলেই অ্যাকসেপ্ট করা যায় ঠিকই, কিন্ত অ্যাকসেপ্ট করলেই ভালবাসা যায় কি? - কোলাজ”
    Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #24
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #25
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #26
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #27
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #28
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #29
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “She has the gift of accepting her life.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #30
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake



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