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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declivated

There is a space here, an impression, like a footprint in the sand or a cast, a male declivity in the shape of my husband.

—p.46 Couples (43) by Rachel Cusk
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traduce

In Greek drama, to traduce biological human roles is to court the change that is death, the death that is change.

—p.10 Aftermath (3) by Rachel Cusk
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palimpsest

the labor movement loves to trace its lineages through the deep palimpsest of antecedent organizations and their mergers and the internal culture shifts they necessitated

—p.49 Fires (45) by Daisy Pitkin
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autotelic

But I would also claim that fantasy and imagination have become not only self-generated, but also autotelic, becoming their own (pleasurable) goals

—p.232 From Romantic Fantasy to Disappointment (198) by Eva Illouz
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salutary

This idea had a tremendous impact on the collective view and treatment of romantic misery, suggesting it is a salutary dimension of the process of maturation

—p.3 Introduction: The Misery of Love (1) by Eva Illouz
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