Priyadarshini Gupta

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W. Somerset Maugham
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
W. Somerset Maugham

“এই ঘুম চেয়েছিল বুঝি!
রক্তফেনামাখা মুখে মড়কের ইঁদুরের মতো ঘাড় গুঁজি
আঁধার ঘুঁজির বুকে ঘুমায় এবার
কোনোদিন জাগিবে না আর।

‘কোনদিন জাগিবে না আর
জানিবার গাঢ় বেদনার
অবিরাম অবিরাম ভার
সহিবে না আর-’
এই কথা বলেছিল তারে
চাঁদ ডুবে চলে গেলে অদ্ভুত আঁধারে
যেন তার জানালার ধারে
উটের গ্রীবার মতো কোনো এক নিত্বব্ধতা এসে।”
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Rabindranath Tagore
“মেঘ সে বাষ্পগিরি,
গিরি সে বাষ্পমেঘ,
কালের স্বপ্নে যুগে যুগে ফিরি ফিরি
এ কিসের ভাবাবেগ॥”
Rabindranath Tagore

“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

Friedrich Nietzsche
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

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