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

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being able to live out a passion

When I was a child, luxury was fur coats, evening dresses, and villas by the sea. Later on, I thought it meant leading the life of an intellectual. Now I feel that it is also being able to live out a passion for a man or a woman.

—p.61 Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
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I discovered what people are capable of

Whether or not he was “worth it” is of no consequence. And the fact that all this is gradually slipping away from me, as if it concerned another woman, does not change this one truth: thanks to him, I was able to approach the frontier separating me from others, to the extent of actually believing t…

—p.59 by Annie Ernaux