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“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“সৎ পাত্র

শুনতে পেলাম পোস্তা গিয়ে—
তোমার নাকি মেয়ের বিয়ে ?
গঙ্গারামকে পাত্র পেলে ?
জানতে চাও সে কেমন ছেলে ?
মন্দ নয় সে পাত্র ভালো
রঙ যদিও বেজায় কালো ;
তার উপরে মুখের গঠন
অনেকটা ঠিক পেঁচার মতন ;
বিদ্যে বুদ্ধি ? বলছি মশাই—
ধন্যি ছেলের অধ্যবসায় !
উনিশটিবার ম্যাট্রিকে সে
ঘায়েল হয়ে থামল শেষে ।
বিষয় আশয় ? গরীব বেজায়—
কষ্টে–সৃষ্টে দিন চলে যায় ।

মানুষ তো নয় ভাইগুলো তার—
একটা পাগল একটা গোঁয়ার ;
আরেকটি সে তৈরী ছেলে,
জাল করে নোট গেছেন জেলে ।
কনিষ্ঠটি তবলা বাজায়
যাত্রাদলে পাঁচ টাকা পায় ।
গঙ্গারাম তো কেবল ভোগে
পিলের জ্বর আর পাণ্ডু রোগে ।
কিন্তু তারা উচ্চ ঘর,
কংসরাজের বংশধর !
শ্যাম লাহিড়ী বনগ্রামের
কি যেন হয় গঙ্গারামের ।—
যহোক, এবার পাত্র পেলে,
এমন কি আর মন্দ ছেলে ?”
― Sukumar Ray, Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray

“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

“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
― Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life

“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”
― Andy Warhol

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
― Dante Alighieri

“The better you look, the more you see.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

“Storytelling is inherently dangerous. Consider a traumatic event in your life. Think about how you experienced it. Now think about how you told it to someone a year later. Now think about how you told it for the hundredth time. It's not the same thing. Most people think perspective is a good thing: you can figure out characters' arcs, you can apply a moral, you can tell it with understanding and context. But this perspective is a misrepresentation: it's a reconstruction with meaning, and as such bears little resemblance to the event.”
― Charlie Kaufman

“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
― Noam Chomsky