Adhrit Sanyal

“ফুল দেখিবার যোগ্য চক্ষু যার রহে
সেই যেন কাঁটা দেখে, অন্যে নহে নহে॥”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“I am a Jew. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.”
― William Shakespeare

“I met death in Dickens. It made more of an impression on me than anything else in Dickens. There was the death of Little Nell, the death of Paul Dombey, the death of Barkis in David Copperfield, the death (above all) of Dora. I remember reading about that in the autumn of 1918. It was October; it was a rainy day; and it was late afternoon when I read that chapter. I read it by the light of the fire. I can still remember all that. I can still remember my grief, and I can still remember that it took me several months to overcome that grief about a fictive character in a book—not that I have ever really recovered. That experience at the age of eight prepared me to find value in the passing of loved ones. It helped me to endure and properly experience the real deaths that followed it . . . We need to prepare our children for death. It is one of the things that they need and have a right to learn, and it is from literature that they can best learn it.”
― Arm the Children

“যা পেয়েছি প্রথম দিনে সেই যেন পাই শেষে,
দু হাত দিয়ে বিশ্বেরে ছুঁই শিশুর মতো হেসে॥
যাবার বেলা সহজেরে
যাই যেন মোর প্রণাম সেরে,
সকল পন্থা যেথায় মেলে সেথা দাঁড়াই এসে॥
খুঁজতে যারে হয় না কোথাও চোখ যেন তায় দেখে,
সদাই যে রয় কাছে তারি পরশ যেন ঠেকে।
নিত্য যাহার থাকি কোলে
তারেই যেন যাই গো ব’লে—
এই জীবনে ধন্য হলেম তোমায় ভালোবেসে॥”
― পূজা / শেষ / রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর