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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.

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

it would never admit discontinuity

[...] Lenin [...] never presented basic changes and new departures as merely continuations and improvements of previous trends. For example, when he announced the New Economic Policy, he never for one moment said that this was a ‘development’ or ‘completion’ of War Communism. He stated quite frankl…

—p.13 Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait The Winding Paths of Capital (5) missing author
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there is teleology in all human labour

[...] The concept of labour is the hinge of my analysis. For labour is not biologically determined. If a lion attacks an antelope, its behaviour is determined by biological need and by that alone. But if primitive man is confronted with a heap of stones, he must choose between them, by judging whic…

—p.3 Life and Work (3) by György Lukács
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a kind of portraiture, or rather self-portraiture

The great advantages of the interview are its manoeuvrability and range. Beginning, usually, in a conversation and resulting in a printed representation of that, its production process is more complex than this suggests, combining the greater spontaneity and pace of speech with the greater scope an…

—p.xii Not Yet, No Longer, Not Yet: An Introduction (xi) by Francis Mulhern
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when all the others were away at Mass

When all the others were away at Mass
I was all hers as we peeled potatoes.
They broke the silence, let fall one by one
Like solder weeping off the soldering iron:
Cold comforts set between us, things to share
Gleaming in a bucket of clean water.
And again let fall. Little pleasan…

—p.97 100 Poems from Clearances: 3 (97) by Seamus Heaney
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the main thing is to write for the joy of it advice/writing

The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night

dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
[...]

—p.88 from Station Island: XII (87) by Seamus Heaney