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

in the cool of the evening

But what you did was necessary, and we went down in history. And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. [...]

—p.29 Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays Letters to a German Friend (1) by Albert Camus
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no ultimate meaning

For a long time we both thought that this world had no ultimate meaning and that consequently we were cheated. I still think so in a way. [...]

You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalent and that good and evil could be defin…

—p.27 Letters to a German Friend (1) by Albert Camus
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both light and heavy

These July nights are both light and heavy. Light along the Seine and in the trees, but heavy in the hearts of those who are awaiting the only dawn they now long for.

—p.26 Letters to a German Friend (1) by Albert Camus
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to liberate them from you

[...] the roses in the cloisters of Florence, the gilded bulbous domes of Krakow, the Hradschin and its dead palaces, the contorted statues of the Charles River over the Ultava, the delicate gardens of Salzburg. All those flowers and stones, those hills and those landscapes where men's time and the…

—p.24 Letters to a German Friend (1) by Albert Camus
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colored spot on temporary maps

Now tell me whether this Europe, whose frontiers are the genius of a few and the heart of all its inhabitants, differs from the colored spot you have annexed on temporary maps.

—p.22 Letters to a German Friend (1) by Albert Camus