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

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the silent voice that speaks to her through books

Little by little you will manage to understand something more about the origins of the translator's machinations: the secret spring that set them in motion was his jealousy of the invisible rival who came constantly between him and Ludmilla, the silent voice that speaks to her through books, this g…

—p.158 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler 7 (140) by Italo Calvino
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would you like to penetrate her shell

And yet the sight of the books in Ludmilla's house proves reassuring for you. Reading is solitude. To you Ludmilla appears protected by the valves of the open book like an oyster in its shell. The shadow of another man, probable, indeed certain, is if not erased, thrust off to one side. One reads a…

—p.147 7 (140) by Italo Calvino
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only in the sum of all dissatisfactions

It could be an important feature to be added to your portrait: your mind has interior walls that allow you to partition different times in which to stop or flow, to concentrate alternately on parallel channels. Is this enough to say you would like to live several lives simultaneously? Or that you a…

—p.146 7 (140) by Italo Calvino
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penumbra

You enter the penumbra of the lowered blinds

he likes this word

—p.140 7 (140) by Italo Calvino
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peremptory

because the arrow's peremptory inexorability, without modulations, excludes all the intentions, implications, hesitations possible in the voice of someone I do not see

—p.132 In a network of lines that enlace (132) by Italo Calvino
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