Saima Musharrat

“There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.”
― Jane Jacobs

“যে ফুলের আদল পাওয়া যায় শুধুমাত্র লক্ষ লক্ষ তারার মধ্যে, তাকে যদি কেউ ভালবাসে, তারাদের দিকে চেয়ে চেয়েই তার সুখ। নিজেকে সে বোঝায়, 'ঐখানে কোথাও না কোথাও আছে আমার ফুল...' কিন্তু সেই ফুলটাকে যদি ভেড়া খেয়ে ফেলে তাহলে তো তার কাছে নিভে যায় সব তারার আলো। এটা কি গুরুগম্ভীর বিষয় নয়?”
― Saint Exupery, The Little Prince

“During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing.

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For four long books of the Odyssey he had retraced in detail his adventures before the dazzled Phaeacians. But in Ithaca he was not a stranger, he was one of their own, so it never occurred to anyone to say, 'Tell us!”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and all the time, "regardless whether we want to hear it", it roars from loudspeakers, in cars, in restaurants, in elevators, in the streets, in waiting rooms, in gyms, in the earpieces of Walkmans, music rewritten, reorchestrated, abridged, and stretched out, fragments of rock, of jazz, of opera, a flood of everything jumbled together so that we don't know who composed it (music become noise is anonymous), so that we can't tell beginning from end (music become noise has no form): sewage-water music in which music is dying.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance