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Uncle Gobb and the Green Heads

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Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen is a renowned British novelist, born on May 7, 1946. His works are known for their unique style and profound emotional depth, which have won him a wide audience. more

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“Andreas Ban would like to put several swifts on his chest to rest, to breathe with him like sleeping children. Little black birds like cheerful death. Painless. Little black birds with big eyes and a small beak, which peck noiselessly at his insides, see what is there and are silent. Andreas Ban stretches his arms toward the sky, imagining that he is flying, imagining himself in a flock of swifts and lets out a stifled cry. Small birds, they die when they are alone. He, Andreas Ban, is alone.”

DeathSadnessMortalityBirds
Book:Belladonna
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“মনে নেই, আমি নিজে ফিরে গিয়েছিলাম, অথবা তোমাকে ফিরিয়ে দিয়েছিলাম, এখন আর কিছু মনে নেই, তবু দুঃখ হয় এখন, যখন একেকদিন খুব বৃষ্টি নেমে আসে এখন, যখন একেকদিন খুব শীতের বাতাস শুধু পাতা উড়িয়ে উড়িয়ে আমার চারদিকে বৃষ্টি ও ঠান্ডা বাতাস ঘুরে ঘুরে; এমন কি যখন সেই পুরনো কালের সাদা রোদ হঠাত্‍ ভোরবেলা ঘর ভাসিয়ে ছাপিয়ে, 'কি ব্যাপার এবার কোথাও যাবে না?' এখন আর কোনোখানে যাওয়া নেই, এখন কেবল ঠান্ডা বাতাস, এখন বৃষ্টি, জল আমার চারপাশ ঘিরে পাতা ওড়ে আর জল পড়ে । এখন তোমার জন্য দুঃখ হয়, এখন আমার জন্য দুঃখ হয়, আমি নিজে ফিরে গিয়েছিলাম অথবা তোমাকে ফিরিয়ে দিয়েছিলাম, এখন দুঃখ হয়”

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Author:Tarapada Roy
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“Do not watch yourself too closely. Do not draw over-rapid conclusions from what is happening to you. Simply let it happen. Otherwise you will too readily find yourself looking on your past, which is of course not uninvolved with everything that is going on in you now, reproachfully (that is, moralistically). The extraordinary circumstances of a solitary and helpless childhood are so difficult, so complicated, exposed to so many influences and at the same time removed from any real life context, that if a vice enters into it we must not be too quick to call it a vice. We should in general be very careful with names; it is so often the name of a crime which destroys a life, not the nameless and personal act itself, which was perhaps completely necessary to that life and could have been absorbed by it without difficulty.”

PastSadnessDepressionDifficultiesSinsSelf Absorption
Book:Letters to a Young Poet
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