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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first of all a man has to know how to work Wall Street

[...] But this Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith is some place: it is a pity I am now too old, but something your children should do first thing is to work with them for a while to learn the trade (there is an enormous students’ office): send them for an apprenticeship with Merrill Lynch, Pierc…

—p.40 Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings American Diary 1959–1960 (16) by Italo Calvino
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stories about a search for human completeness

[...] The stories that I am interested in narrating are always stories about a search for human completeness, integration, to be achieved through trials that are both practical and moral at the same time, and that constitute something above and beyond all the alienation and division that is imposed…

—p.10 Questionnaire, 1956 (7) by Italo Calvino
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ambit

I have been living in Turin since 1945, always in the ambit of the Einaudi publishing house, for which I started to work by selling books on hire purchase

—p.8 Questionnaire, 1956 (7) by Italo Calvino
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