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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apostate

in your cloudy eyes there is the same misty defense against apostasy that recalls to me Mason in his stubborn cigarette clouds

—p.69 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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abeyance

What he held in abeyance, what the legal bachelorhood represented, was his grail, his lingering, halfhearted vision of self-realization.

—p.53 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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exegesis

How pleasant the rooms were, how comforting the distresses of New Yorkers, their insomnias filled with words, their patient exegesis of surprising terrors.

—p.42 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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exegesis

How pleasant the rooms were, how comforting the distresses of New Yorkers, their insomnias filled with words, their patient exegesis of surprising terrors.

—p.42 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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sacerdotal

To become a sacerdotal offering, very much like those pale schoolteachers in Latin America, men from the poor villages, sweating in their black suits and white shirts, receiving and giving a peculiar list of punishments in their visionary calling.

—p.13 Sleepless Nights (1) by Elizabeth Hardwick
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