Charly

“I am like one who died young. All my life might have been.”
― Charles Dickens, 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”
― Chūya Nakahara

“Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“God has died, and his death was the life of the world.”
― Philipp Mainländer, Die Philosophie der Erlösung