418 Quotes About Classics

Forse non si desiderava tanto essere amati quanto essere capiti.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

সাহিত্যকে যদি এক একটি কালের অথবা এক একটি ভাষার গণ্ডির মধ্যে খণ্ডমূর্তিতে দেখা হয়, সেটা ঠিক দেখা হবে না। তার সেই খণ্ড বিচ্ছিন্ন নানামূর্তির ঊর্দ্ধে আর এক অখণ্ড মূর্তি বিরাজিত, সে হচ্ছে যুগ যুগান্তর সঞ্চিত মানস চেতনার একটি অবিচ্ছিন্ন চিন্তাধারার আলোক। সেই আলোকধারা যুগের সঙ্গে যুগের সেতু নির্মাণ করে চলেছে অতীত থেকে ভবিষ্যতে।এইখানেই সাহিত্যের অপরিহার্যতা, এইখানেই সাহিত্যের মূল্য। সাহিত্য অতীতকে রক্ষা করে, বর্তমানকে সমৃদ্ধ করে আর উত্তরকালের জন্য সঞ্চয় করে।

The greatest mistake of mankind was believing that there was only one devil, and that we were all separate from him.

You want to kill me, and I do not care, for no matter how you kill me, it will not make a difference, because I never wanted to live in the first place. Kill me and tell them that I fought. I will be remembered a fighter, and you will go down a hero. Kill me and be left with the memory, that you killed someone who wanted to die. Only your saints will know your sins, but they do not care, for theirs outweigh your own.

No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo.

It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh

I would probably say that it does not matter what others say of me, it only matters what I say of myself, but I am afraid that they know more than I do and I am the man they make me out to be. Who cares if I say I am a good person? I am biased. Surely everyone else is not.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,