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“জীবনকে জানা আর জীবনকে মায়া করা অঙ্গাঙ্গিভাবে জড়িয়ে আছে । একটাকে বড় করে অন্যটাকে তুচ্ছ করা জীবনদর্শীর পক্ষে বীভৎস অপরাধ”

LifeKnowing
Book:লেখকের কথা ও বাংলা প্রগতি সাহিত্যের আত্মসমালোচনা
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“Still, the limitations of what we can know, no matter how obsessed we are, have, inevitably, become clear to me. She walks ahead of me and I don't get to see her face. Was her hair brown or pale? Was she slim? Did she get heavier as she bore her children? Or was she petite, like a bird? What did her voice sound like? Did she argue with her husband? Did she like to cook? Was she as ambitious as I think she was? Would she have approved of my writing about her? But the closer I have drawn, the more she has receded, her figure diminishing, no matter how I strain to catch up. Those shores of early America are irretrievable, as is Anne. I have tried to retrieve her here, but some of the most important things are bound to be left unknown.”

HistoryKnowingLimits Of KnowledgeAnne Bradstreet
Book:Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet
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