Priyadarshini Gupta

“Dracula : Dying is the only remaining novelty. Every other human experience is catalogued somewhere in your endless chattering libraries. Nothing comes fresh. Every living instant is shop-soiled and secondhand except that one moment in life that no one can report back on. In a world of travelled roads, death is the last unprinted snow.”
― Dracula

“মৃতের যতই বাড়াই মিথ্যা মূল্য,
মরণেরই শুধু ঘটে ততই বাহুল্য॥”
― 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

“বসন্ত সে কুঁড়ি ফুলের দল
হাওয়ায় কত ওড়ায় অবহেলায়।
নাহি ভাবে ভাবী কালের ফল
ক্ষণকালের খামখেয়ালি খেলায়॥”
― Rabindranath Tagore