Saima Musharrat

“If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and all the time, "regardless whether we want to hear it", it roars from loudspeakers, in cars, in restaurants, in elevators, in the streets, in waiting rooms, in gyms, in the earpieces of Walkmans, music rewritten, reorchestrated, abridged, and stretched out, fragments of rock, of jazz, of opera, a flood of everything jumbled together so that we don't know who composed it (music become noise is anonymous), so that we can't tell beginning from end (music become noise has no form): sewage-water music in which music is dying.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its own birth. In doing so, modernity is that fashionable illusion which only speaks to death”
― Carlos Fuentes, Aura

“একদিন আমি তেতাল্লিশ বার সূর্য ডুবতে দেখলাম।' একটু পরে সে আরও বলল--
'জানো, লোকেদের যখন খুব মন খারাপ থাকে তখন সূর্যডোবা দেখতে ভাল লাগে।'
'তেতাল্লিশবারের দিন তাহলে তোমার খুব মন খারাপ ছিল?' কোন জবাবই কিন্তু দিল না খুদে রাজকুমার।”
― Saint Exupery, The Little Prince

“It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus