“वो facebook पर भी नहीं मिली जहाँ वो सारे लोग मिल जाते हैं जिनको आपअपनी लाइफ में “add as friend” नहीं करना चाहते”
“सवाल जो लंबे समय तक सवाल बने रहते हैं हम उनके एक-दो नकली जवाब सोच लेते हैं। जो सच नहीं होते लेकिन झूठ भी नहीं होते है। और सबसे अच्छी बात ये होती है कि इन नकली जवाबों के साथ जीना बहुत आसान हो जाता है। इसलिए शायद जो लोग सवाल के साथ घर से निकले वो कभी लौटे नहीं और जो लौटे उनके जवाब नकली थे”
“Possibility is miraculous.”
“If your holy book makes you hate, you re reading the wrong shit, mate.”
“You meet somebody at the seashore on a vacation and have a wonderful time together. Or in a corner at a party, while the glasses clink and somebody beats on a piano, you talk with a stranger whose mind seems to whet and sharpen your own and with whom a wonderful new vista of ideas is spied. Or you share some intense or painful experience with somebody, and discover a deep communion. Then afterward you are sure that when you meet again, the gay companion will give you the old gaiety, the brilliant stranger will stir your mind from its torpor, the sympathetic friend will solace you with the old communion of spirit. But something happens, or almost always happens, to the gaiety, the brilliance, the communion. You remember the individual words from the old language you spoke together , but you have forgotten the grammar. You remember the steps of the dance, but the music isn’t playing any more. So there you are.”
“उसको वैसे ही महसूस हुआ जैसा सालों से दुनिया को होता आया है। उसमें कुछ भी नया नहीं था। ये वो मंज़िलें हैं जहाँ हर बार बस पहुँचने वाला नया होता है”
“उस दिन स्कूल की छुट्टी के बाद से ही दुनिया, प्यार क्या होता है का जवाब अपने-अपने तरीके से ख़ोज रही है और सबके पास एक readymade नकली जवाब तैयार है”
“We think of our species as swinging on the pinnacle of evolution, but this definitely isn’t the final design. If our bodies don’t evolve much further, our minds will. It’s the only way our species can save itself. An evolution of human consciousness is only a matter of time. And that’s when we will finally discover the good life, hand in hand. Meanwhile we just have to tough it out and make the most of things.”
“You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.”
“জীবনে যত মানুষ দেখলাম—মানুষই দেখেছি আমি, মানুষ খুঁজে বেড়িয়েছি, দেখেছি প্রতিটি মানুষের মধ্যেই কখনো-না-কখনো এমনি এক-একটি বা এমনি কয়েকটি বিচিত্র বিকাশ হয়, যা মনে করিয়ে দেয়, বুঝিয়ে দেয় তারও মধ্যে আছে সুন্দর বা মধুরের একটি প্রবাহ; সে শুধুই বালুচর নয়, হঠাৎ একদিন বালুচর ভেদ করে উৎসারিত হয় মধুরের একটি নির্ঝর। প্রতিটি- প্রতিটি মানুষের মধ্যেই হয়।”
“I remember a time in a class on a cold winter morning a Japanese girl came with a surgical mask & I thought “wow people would go to extremes NOT to get sick in Japan” afterwards on a break I approached her & asked in a cynical manner: why the mask? Are you afraid of catching a cold? & then she said “in Japan you use it when YOU are under the weather & you don’t want other people to get sick, it is the polite thing to do” wow! that s a lesson I will never forget”
“without the act of imagination humanity would have perished long back”
“If u know, Chess is the game that teach u about defense not strike. Enjoy ur tempo and win the game!”
“Keep learning, keep learning!”
“Sado delikat qoftë njeriu në dashuri, fal më shumë faje se në miqësi.”
“In books and movies, all the loose ends are tired, things are resolved, mysteries are solved, they catch the killer, the boy gets the girl, a sick baby is miraculously healed. In reality it doesn t always work that way. The killer gets away, the girl is in love with another boy, things just get buried under new dramas and don t get resolved. Life is far more complicated than the life depicted in a book or a movie.”
“sometimes we don t need to think to beleive”