Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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a man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills

How free can we actually be, as individuals, even when we are outwardly, politically free? Whose opinions are they really that we call our own? When can we say I and really mean I, and not the father, the mother, the teachers, the friends, whose convictions are reproduced in us? How much I is there…

—p.96 Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces On The Book Of Words (93) by Jenny Erpenbeck
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forming alliances with the corrupt elites of other nations

Seen from the West, the collapse of the Eastern Bloc marked the victorious end of the Cold War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall signified the failure of Communist ideals and utopias. The bankruptcy of any economic system that rejected profit motives could be seen in the parade of Trabis, those icon…

—p.175 Blind Spots (173) by Jenny Erpenbeck