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

“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That’s the rule. It can never be exactly the same.” A”
― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

“My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! ”
― Marquis de Sade

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“কেহ বিশ্বাস করে, কেহ করে না। যে বিশ্বাস করে সেও সত্য-মিথ্যা যাচাই করে না, যে অবিশ্বাস করে সেও না। বিশ্বাস-অবিশ্বাসের প্রশ্নটা নির্ভর করে মানুষের খুশির উপর।”
― Manik Bandopadhyay, পুতুলনাচের ইতিকথা

“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“জ্বলন্ত আগুনে যে পোকারা ঝাঁপ দিয়ে মরে তাতে কি আগুনের অপরাধ আছে? কারণ পোকাদের ভাগ্যই আগুনে পুড়ে মরা।”
― Ahmed Sofa, অর্ধেক নারী অর্ধেক ঈশ্বরী

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...”
― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love

“A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“অন্ধকারে যে বাস করে মৃদু আলোতে তাহার চোখ ঝলসাইয়া যায়।”
― Manik Bandopadhyay, পদ্মানদীর মাঝি

“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.”
― Shams Tabrizi

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

“মানুষের স্বভাব হলো, কেউ যখন ভালোবাসে তখন নানান কর্মকাণ্ড করে সেই ভালোবাসা বাড়িয়ে দিতে ইচ্ছে করে, আবার কেউ যখন রেগে যায় তখন তার রাগটাও বাড়িয়ে দিতে ইচ্ছা করে।”
― Humayun Ahmed, আঙুল কাটা জগলু

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun