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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7 years, 8 months ago

anguish and yellow sky at the same time inspo/misc topic/literary-theory

What is valid for the elements of artistic creation is also valid for their combinations. The painter does not want to draw signs on his canvas, he wants to create a thing. And if he puts together red, yellow, and green, there is no reason why this collection of colours should have a definable sign…

—p.2 What is Literature? What is Writing? (1) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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7 years, 8 months ago

we actually set out to save the world inspo/interiority

We actually set out to save the world. That is what was insane — not ten-year-old warlords with bad breath and voodoo fetishes in Liberia, not Matt's assassin, not the boss in Somalia who set us up for an ambush in exchange for a fifteen percent kickback on the judges' salaries, not the Hutu mil…

—p.294 Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone Return to Normal (281) by Kenneth Cain
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7 years, 8 months ago

let the dead bury the dead inspo/interiority

I set out to save lives and have ended up collecting the dead. Somewhere along the line, I lost sight of treating people and became obsessed with my own grandiose ideals of service. But there is no redemption in this. I've worked myself into the ground only to end up doing the very thing my parents…

—p.255 Condition Echo (249) by Andrew Thomson
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7 years, 8 months ago

your lives are worth so much less than theirs

One day someone at UNHQ will commission an official report about this disaster, replete with mea culpas and lessons learned. But for me there's only one lesson and it's staring right at me every day as I eat lunch: If blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protec…

—p.253 Condition Echo (249) by Andrew Thomson
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7 years, 8 months ago

I watched all the ballots

Two weeks later the Haitian government announced election results from this region, with UN blessing: government wins 62 percent of the vote, opposition parties 38 percent. I watched all the ballots burn before anyone had counted them; they were still bound in boxes. I wrote a memo to UNHQ detailin…

—p.230 Condition Delta (191) by Kenneth Cain