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Humayun Azad
“আমাদের গাঁয়ের অধিকাংশ লোক গোলাপ দেখে নি, ঘ্রাণ চায় নি গোলাপের। তারা দেখে নি কোনো চোখ-ঝলসানো নাচ, কোনো দিন দেখার স্বপ্নও দেখে নি। কবিতা পড়ে নি তারা, কোনোদিন পড়ার কথা ভাবে নি। কখনো তাদের বুক থেকে চোখের জলের মতো দীর্ঘশ্বাস বেরিয়ে আসে নি এ-কথা ভেবে যে এ-জীবনে তাদেরও একটি কবিতা পড়া হলো না। কেউ রাজা হ'তে চায় নি তারা। জরির পোশাক প'রে গোঁফ রেখে ধারালো তলোয়ার হাতে ক'রে ফিরতে চায় নি কেউ তারা। তারা চেয়েছে ভাত। স্বপ্ন দেখেছে মধুর মতো, তারার মতো, চাঁদের মতো, কড়িফুলের মতো ভাতের আর ভাতের আর ভাতের। জেগে উঠে দেখেছে সামনে প'ড়ে আছে শূন্য মাটির বাসন।”
হুমায়ুন আজাদ, ফুলের গন্ধে ঘুম আসে না

Melissa Marr
“Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.”
Melissa Marr

Richard P. Feynman
“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”
Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

Isaac Asimov
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
Isaac Asimov

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

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