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

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

“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

“The human intellect is like peacock feathers.
Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature,a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building -- just an elaborate mating ritual.”
― Westworld

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Imperialism is the object-less disposition of a state to expansion by force without assigned limits... Modern Imperialism is one of the heirlooms of the absolute monarchical state. The "inner logic" of capitalism would have never evolved it. Its sources come from the policy of the princes and the customs of a pre-capitalist milieu. But even export monopoly is not imperialism and it would never have developed to imperialism in the hands of the pacific bourgeoisie. This happened only because the war machine, its social atmosphere, and the martial will were inherited and because a martially oriented class (i.e., the nobility) maintained itself in a ruling position with which of all the varied interests of the bourgeoisie the martial ones could ally themselves. This alliance keeps alive fighting instincts and ideas of domination. It led to social relations which perhaps ultimately are to be explained by relations of production but not by the productive relations of capitalism alone.”
―  Joseph A. Schumpeter, The Sociology of Imperialism (1918)

“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