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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2 years, 11 months ago

I have still not stepped through the portico

I have still not stepped through the portico of the camp. I am making no progress in my attempt to capture the girl of 58. It is as if I wanted to 'build her profile as meticulously as possible, adding never-ending psychological and social determinants', too many strokes to the portrait, thus rende…

—p.28 A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
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2 years, 11 months ago

every moment lived without a writing project why/write

Over ten years have passed, eleven summers that raise to fifty-five the number of years that have elapsed since the summer of '58, with wars, revolutions and explosions at nuclear power stations, all in the process of being forgotten.

The time that lies ahead of me grows shorter. There will inev…

—p.17 by Annie Ernaux
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2 years, 11 months ago

the desire and the will of a single Other

There are beings who are overwhelmed by the reality of others, their way of speaking, of crossing their legs, of lighting a cigarette. They become mired in the presence of others. One day, or rather one night, they are swept away inside the desire and the will of a single Other. Everything they bel…

—p.11 by Annie Ernaux
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2 years, 11 months ago

I'm not ashamed of any thing I've done

"One thing more," she said. "I'm not ashamed of any thing I've done. There's nothing to be ashamed of in loving a person and saying so."

It was not true. The shame of her surrender, her letter, her unrequited love would go on gnawing, burning, till the end of her life. (...)

After all, it did…

—p.1 missing author
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3 years, 1 month ago

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #75

RANT

You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology
a cosmogony
laid out, before all eyes

there is no part of yourself you can separate out
saying, this is memory, this is sensation
this is the work I care about, this is how I
make a living

it is whole, it is a whole, it always was …

—p.103 Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima