Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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to know God and yet do evil

If one only could … But it required strength. It took it out of one so. The romantic life had been too hard for her. In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak. The small state, racked by internal dissension, invites the foreign conqueror. Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the r…

—p.281 The Company She Keeps Ghostly Father, I Confess (247) by Mary McCarthy
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they had taught her the fine art of self-pity

[...] She could no longer go back into circulation, as she had done so often before. The little apartment in the Village, the cocktail parties, the search for a job, the loneliness, the harum-scarum, Bohemian habits, all this was now unthinkable for her. She had lost the life-giving illusion, the s…

—p.278 Ghostly Father, I Confess (247) by Mary McCarthy