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

“I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.”
― Swami Vivekananda

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

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

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

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

“Paths are made by walking”
― Franz Kafka

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”
― Albert Einstein

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“বোধ

আলো — অন্ধকারে যাই — মাথার ভিতরে
স্বপ্ন নয়, কোন এক বোধ কাজ করে!
স্বপ্ন নয় — শান্তি নয় — ভালোবাসা নয়,
হৃদয়ের মাঝে এক বোধ জন্ম লয়!
আমি তারে পারি না এড়াতে
সে আমার হাত রাখে হাতে;

সব কাছ তুচ্ছ হয়, পন্ড মনে হয়,
সব চিন্তা — প্রার্থনার সকল সময়
শূন্য মনে হয়,
শূন্য মনে হয়!
সহজ লোকের মতো কে চলিতে পারে!
কে থামিতে পারে এই আলোয় আঁধারে
সহজ লোকের মতো! তাদের মতন ভাষা কথা
কে বলিতে পারে আর! — কোন নিশ্চয়তা
কে জানিতে পারে আর? — শরীরের স্বাদ
কে বুঝিতে চায় আর? — প্রাণের আহ্লাদ
সকল লোকের মতো কে পাবে আবার!
সকল লোকের মতো বীজ বুনে আর
স্বাদ কই! — ফসলের আকাঙক্ষায় থেকে,
শরীরে মাটির গন্ধ মেখে,
শরীরে জলের গন্ধ মেখে,
উৎসাহে আলোর দিকে চেয়ে
চাষার মতণ প্রাণ পেয়ে
কে আর রহিবে জেগে পৃথিবীর পরে?
স্বপ্ন নয়, শান্তি নয়,কোন এক বোধ কাজ করে
মাথার ভিতরে!”
― Jibanananda Das, জীবনানন্দ দাশের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা

“অদ্ভুত আঁধার এক এসেছে এ-পৃথিবীতে আজ,
যারা অন্ধ সবচেয়ে বেশি আজ চোখে দেখে তারা;
যাদের হৃদয়ে কোনো প্রেম নেই—প্রীতি নেই—করুণার আলোড়ন নেই
পৃথিবী অচল আজ তাদের সুপরামর্শ ছাড়া।
যাদের গভীর আস্থা আছে আজো মানুষের প্রতি
এখনো যাদের কাছে স্বাভাবিক ব'লে মনে হয়
মহৎ সত্য বা রীতি, কিংবা শিল্প অথবা সাধনা
শকুন ও শেয়ালের খাদ্য আজ তাদের হৃদয়।

A strange darkness has come upon the world today.
They who are most blind now see,
Those whose hearts lack love, lack warmth, lack pity's stirrings,
Without their fine advice, the world today dare not make a move.
They who yet possess an abiding faith in man,
To whom still now high truths or age-old customs,
Or industry or austere effort all seem natural,
Their hearts are victuals for the vulture and the jackal.

Translated by: Clinton B. Seely”
― Jibanananda Das, বনলতা সেন