Asif Anwar

“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“ছোট্ট সুপ্রভা। তোমার প্রসঙ্গ অপেক্ষা উপন্যাসে আর আসবে না। কারণ তোমার জন্য কেউ অপেক্ষা করে থাকবে না। মৃত মানুষের জন্য আমরা অপেক্ষা করি না। আমাদের সমস্ত অপেক্ষা জীবিতদের জন্য। এই চরম সত্যটি না জেনেই তুমি হারিয়ে গেলে।”
― হুমায়ূন আহমেদ (Humayun Ahmed)

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray