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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we shut ourselves up in a mutual kindness

There is not only need for tenderness, there is also need to be tender for the other: we shut ourselves up in a mutual kindness, we mother each other reciprocally; we must return to the root of all relations, where need and desire join. The tender gesture says: ask me anything that can put your bod…

—p.224 A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
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alterity

I refuse to recognize the division of our image, the other’s alterity.

—p.221 by Roland Barthes
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it is a fragrance without support

"It is a glorious summer, and I often sit up in the trees of Lotle’s orchard and take down with a long pole the pears from the highest branches. She stands below and catches them when I lower the pole.” Werther is telling his story, ready and speaks in the present tense, but his scene already has t…

—p.216 by Roland Barthes