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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired."
"Meaning what?"
"Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“বয়স্ক উপযুক্ত সন্তানকে বশ করা, জগতে এতবড় জয় আর নাই।”
― manik bandyopadhyay, পুতুলনাচের ইতিকথা

“মৃত্যু আজকাল হয়েছে অবিকল খবরের কাগজের রিপোর্টারের মতো। খাঁটি স্ক্যাণ্ডাল মঙ্গার একটি। যে-কোনো গুজব শুনেই এসে হাজির হয় যখন তখন, সর্দি-কাশি-মাথাধরা টিটেনাস—কিছু একটা হলেই খাটের পাশে এসে দাঁড়াবে। কি রকম হাঁটুগেড়ে বসে শর্টহ্যান্ডে নোট নিচ্ছে।”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay, আমি কী রকম ভাবে বেঁচে আছি