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

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salubrious

moved into Edward’s marginally more salubrious room on Washington Square

i thought it meant like "naughty" lmao

—p.37 by Olivia Laing
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no access to the self that experienced the loneliness

After Fromm-Reichmann’s death, other psychologists slowly began to turn their attention to the subject. In 1975, the social scientist Robert Weiss edited a seminal study, Loneliness: The Experience of Emotional and Social Isolation. He too opened by acknowledging the subject’s neglect, noting wryly…

—p.26 by Olivia Laing
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pallid

There is no colour in existence that so powerfully communicates urban alienation, the atomisation of human beings inside the edifices they create, as this noxious pallid green

—p.21 by Olivia Laing
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equanimity

This tension is present in even the most benign of his New York paintings, the ones that testify to a more pleasurable, more equanimous kind of solitude

—p.17 by Olivia Laing
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indelibly

What is it about Hopper? Every once in a while an artist comes along who articulates an experience, not necessarily consciously or willingly, but with such prescience and intensity that the association becomes indelible

—p.16 by Olivia Laing
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