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“I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“সুখ? নাই-বা রইল সুখ! সুখ দিয়ে কি হবে? সুখ তো শুঁটকি মাছ! জিভকে ছোটলোক না করলে স্বাদ মেলে না।”
― Manik Bandopadhyay, দিবারাত্রির কাব্য

“স্নিগ্ধতা দেখালে আরো জমাট বাঁধছে, রূঢ়তার উত্তাপে বিনা বাক্যব্যয়ে গলতে আরম্ভ করে দিচ্ছে। কিন্তু গ্রহণ করছে না কিছুই।”
― Manik Bandopadhyay

“The Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“I am not particularly interested in
saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“The walls are the publishers of the poor.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Los hijos de los días

“The Nobodies

Who are not, but could be.
Who don't speak languages, but dialects.
Who don't have religions, but superstitions.
Who don't create art, but handicrafts.
Who don't have culture, but folklore.
Who are not human beings, but human resources.
Who do not have faces, but arms.
Who do not have names, but numbers.
Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police
blotter of the local paper.
The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“All I know is this: art is art, or it's shit”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano, The Book of Embraces

“Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities. ”
― Eduardo Galeano

“No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs--but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints.”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“Development develops inequality.”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies.”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“হুম, যদি কোন শিল্পী একই জিনিশ অনবরত দিয়ে যান, তবে বুঝতে হবে সে ভদ্দরলোকের ভিতরটা পচে গিয়েছে।”
― Ritwik Ghatak, নিজের পায়ে নিজের পথে

“How to please the public - that's the test,
But nowadays I find I'm in a fix;
I know they're not accustomed to the best,
But they've all read so much they know the tricks.
How can we give then something fresh and new
That's serious, but entertaining too?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“How has the United States survived its terrible past and emerged smelling so sweet? Not by owning up to it, not by making reparations, not by apologizing to black Americans or native Americans, and certainly not by changing its ways (it exports its cruelties now). Like most other countries, the United States has rewritten its history. But what sets the United States apart from other countries, and puts it ahead in the race, is that it has enlisted the services of the most powerful, most successful publicity firm in the world: Hollywood.”
― Arundhati Roy, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire

“মানুষের আয়ু মানুষের জীবনের ভুল মাপকাঠি। দশ বছরের জীবন সে উপভোগ করেছে দেড় বছরে।”
― Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, চাঁদের পাহাড়

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