I LOVE YOU - লাভ নাই

লাভ নাই

লাভ নাই - best of luck (!!) to all and sundry (?!!) but I am sorry I cannot waste My very valuable time - মোৰ বহুমূলীয়া সময় মই নষ্ট কৰিব নোৱাৰো ... কোনেও বেয়া চেয়া নাপাবা দেই ...

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I LOVE YOU

'I shall never speak to you again!' is regarded as a serious threat, a mark of the most extreme displeasure.

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A very common form of sentimentality is the line of behaviour that may be summed up as 'If you won't do this for me, you don't love me,' or even, 'If you don't think just as I do, you don't love me.'

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The sentence I LOVE YOU may reasonably lay claim to be the most beautiful sentence in the language. It is also one of the most tragically ambiguous.

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'I love you' may mean anything from 'I love your [Your] personality so much that I would like to do all I could to help it [?] to grow and be happy' to 'I want you all to myself and you must never feel any affection or desire for anyone else', and even to 'I want to kiss you so much that it is cruel of you not to let me.'

(From Marjorie Boulton: "THE ANATOMY OF LANGUAGE", Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi - Ludhiana.)

By the same author:

THE ANATOMY OF POETRY

THE ANATOMY OF PROSE

THE ANATOMY OF DRAMA

THE ANATOMY OF THE NOVEL

(I have all except the last.)

Kishalay Sinha [G]