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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“কালো যদি মন্দ তবে কেশ পাকিলে কাঁদ কেনে?
কালো কেশে রাঙা কুসুম হেরেছ কি নয়নে?”
― Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, কবি

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

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

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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“অব্যাক্তকরণ

ধরো,
কাল তোমার পরীক্ষা
রাত থেকে পড়ার টেবিল-এ বসে আছ তুমি
ঘুম আসছে না আমার
হঠাত করে ভয়ার্ত কন্ঠে উঠে আমি বললাম
ভালোবাসো?
তুমি কি রাগ করবে?
নাকি উঠে এসে জড়িয়ে ধরে বলবে
ভালবাসি, ভালবাসি ...

ধরো,
ক্লান্ত তুমি, অফিস থেকে সবে ফিরেছো
ক্ষুদার্ত , তৃষ্ণার্ত, পীড়িত,
খাওয়ার টেবিল-এ কিছুই তৈরী নাই,
রান্নাঘর থেকে বেরিয়ে ঘর্মাক্ত আমি
তখন তোমার হাত ধরে যদি আমি বলি,
ভালোবাসো?
তুমি কি বিরক্ত হবে?
নাকি আমার হাতে আরেকটু চাপ দিয়ে বলবে
ভালবাসি, ভালবাসি ...

ধরো,
রাস্তা দিয়ে হাঁটছি দুজনে
মাথার উপর তপ্ত রোদ
বহন পাওয়া যাচ্ছেনা
এমনি সময় হঠাত দাড়িয়ে
পথরোধ করে যদি বলি
ভালোবাসো?
তুমি কি হাত দিয়ে সরিয়ে দিবে?
নাকি রাস্তার সব্বার দিকে তাকিয়ে
কাঁধে হাত দিয়ে বলবে
ভালবাসি, ভালবাসি ...

ধরো,
প্রচন্ড ঝড়ে উড়ে গেছে ঘরবাড়ি
আশ্রয় নেই, বিধাতার দান এই পৃথিবীতে,
বাস করছি দুজনে, চিন্তিত তুমি |
এসময় তোমার বুকে মাথা রেখে যদি বলি
ভালোবাসো?
তুমি সরিয়ে দিবে, নাকি আমার মাথার উপর তোমার
মাথা রেখে বলবে
ভালবাসি, ভালবাসি ...

ধরো,
আমি নষ্ট হয়ে গেছি
সবাই ধিক্কার দিচ্ছে, তাড়িয়ে দিচ্ছে আমাকে
এমনি সময়ে তোমার দেখা
অশ্রু ফেলে দূর থেকে ডাক দিয়ে যদি বলি
ভালোবাসো?
আমায় অস্বিকার করবে?
নাকি আমার কাছে এসে মুখখা”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay

“If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored”
― Oglala Lakota

“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“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

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You