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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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heaven as the ultimate Substance

[...] These are the gods we worship: whatever coincidental Substances might promise perfect release. God has himself regularly been conceived along these lines. And the heavens where he resides have often been described as a finally satisfying place reachable only by way of death. [...]

—p.26 The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction Despair (25) by Adam S. Miller
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achievement can be more dangerous than failure

[...] Achievement can be more dangerous than failure. At least failure leaves you with the fantasy of some uppercase Substance. But imagine what happens when "you attain the goal and realize the shocking realization that attaining the goal does not complete or redeem you, does not make everything f…

—p.23 Desire (21) by Adam S. Miller
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Desire wants to desire

[...] Desire naturally assumes that its own intensity is strong evidence for the existence of a correspondingly intense satisfaction. Desire assumes some correlative Substance. It invests its idol with the promise of release. But there is no such substance. [...] Desires wants to desire. It blindly…

—p.22 Desire (21) by Adam S. Miller
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