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, 10 months ago

the world was cheating him of his reward

[...] when once in a while some leisurely passer-by stopped, made merry over the old figure on the board, and spoke of swindling, that was in its way the stupidest lie ever invented by indifference and inborn malice, since it was not the hunger artist who was cheating, he was working honestly, but …

—p.298 The Complete Short Stories A Hunger Artist (289) by Franz Kafka
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eternally invisible in this fog of confusion project/from-first-principles

[...] The farther one descends among the lower schools the more, naturally enough, does one find teachers' and pupils' doubts of their own knowledge vanishing, and superficial culture mounting sky-high around a few precepts that have been drilled into people's minds for centuries, precepts which, t…

—p.261 The Great Wall of China (253) by Franz Kafka
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my ship has no rudder

'[...] I am here, more than that I do not know, further than that I cannot go. My ship has no rudder, and it is drive by the wind that blows in the undermost regions of death.'

—p.247 The Hunter Gracchus (242) by Franz Kafka
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this utterly lonely life

One evening Blumfield, an elderly bachelor, was climbing up to his apartment--a laborious undertaking, for he lived on the sixth floor. While climbing up he thought, as he had so often recently, how unpleasant this utterly lonely life was: to reach his empty rooms he had to climb these six floors a…

—p.195 Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor (195) by Franz Kafka
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stretched her young body

[...] They grew quieter and half unconsciously exchanged glances of complete agreement, having come to the conclusion that it would soon be time to find a good husband for her. And it was like a comfirmation of their new dreams and excellent intentions that at the end of their journey their daughte…

—p.149 The Metamorphosis (95) by Franz Kafka