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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one is too tired even to enjoy one's holidays properly

[...] '[...] One works so feverishly at the office that afterwards one is too tired even to enjoy one's holidays properly. But even all that work does not give one a claim to be treated lovingly by everyone; on the contrary, one is alone, a total stranger and only an object of curiosity. And as lon…

—p.56 The Complete Short Stories Wedding Preparations in the Country (55) by Franz Kafka
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people who live alone topic/having-a-body

'[...] People who live alone have no responsibility in the evenings. One fears a number of things--that one's body could vanish, that human beings may really be what they appear to be at twilight, that one might not be allowed to walk without a stick, that it might be a good idea to go to church an…

—p.47 Description of a Struggle (9) by Franz Kafka
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panopticon

And have they a highly popular panopticon there containing nothing but trees

on Paris

—p.44 Description of a Struggle (9) by Franz Kafka
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balustrade

If people must build such huge squares from sheer wantonness, why don't they build a balustrade across them as well?

—p.37 Description of a Struggle (9) by Franz Kafka
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