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“যে জীবন ফড়িংয়ের দোয়েলের - মানুষের সাথে তার হয় নাকো দেখা”
― Jibanananda Das, জীবনানন্দ দাশের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা

“এইভাবে সবকিছু একদিন গল্প হয়ে যায়।
জামার পকেটে একটা ফিতে, ফিতেয় চুলের গন্ধ, যে গন্ধে অনেক দুঃখ, যে দুঃখে অনেক ভালবাসা, যে ভালবাসায় অনেক ছেলেবেলা..”
― Mahmudul Haque, কালো বরফ

“If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“ছেলেটা খুব ভুল করেছে শক্ত পাথর ভেঙে
মানুষ ছিলো নরম, কেটে , ছড়িয়ে দিলে পারতো।
পথের হদিস পথই জানে, মনের কথা মত্ত...
মানুষ বড় শস্তা, কেটে, ছড়িয়ে দিলে পারতো !”
― শক্তি চট্টোপাধ্যায় / Shakti Chattopadhyay

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“বুকের ওপর দুটো হাত জড়ো করে মার খাওয়া মানুষ যখন বলে-- মুঠোয় কি আছে দেখতে চেও না, দোহাই তোমাদের, এ তোমাদের কোন কাজে লাগবে না, সারা জীবনের সঞ্চয় শুধু এইটুকুই, এই সামান্য স্বপ্নটুকুই...
তখন ধরে নিতে হয় সে বেঁচে আছে কেবল স্মৃতির ওপর!
তারচেয়ে নির্বিষ, তারচেয়ে নিরাপদ জানোয়ার আর কে?”
― Mahmudul Haque, কালো বরফ

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant

“Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger