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People also talk of a “criminal consciousness.” All my life in this world of human beings I have been tortured by such a consciousness, but it has been my faithful companion, like a wife in poverty, and together, just the two of us, we have
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“Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“He was a creature of hope. For dreams are hopes, and echoes of hopes. And I am a creature of despair.”
― The Sandman #72: Chapter Three: In Which We Wake
― The Sandman #72: Chapter Three: In Which We Wake
“How do you separate a tiger's beauty from its ferocity? Or a cheetah's elegance from the speed of its attack? Achilles was like that -- the beauty and the terror were two sides of a single coin.”
― The Silence of the Girls
― The Silence of the Girls
“I am like one who died young. All my life might have been.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“once I believed
love poems were foolish
now I read love poems
just for the sake of it
and yet perhaps I want
to reach a higher state of poetry
I don't know if that's right or wrong
but such a feeling persists anyway
and sometimes irritates me
provoking outrageous desires
once I believed
love poems were foolish
yet now I do nothing
but dream about love”
―
love poems were foolish
now I read love poems
just for the sake of it
and yet perhaps I want
to reach a higher state of poetry
I don't know if that's right or wrong
but such a feeling persists anyway
and sometimes irritates me
provoking outrageous desires
once I believed
love poems were foolish
yet now I do nothing
but dream about love”
―
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Charly’s 2025 Year in Books
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