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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vainglory

the hideous vainglory they excite in certain criminals

—p.195 Reflections on the Guillotine (173) by Albert Camus
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mawkish

it would be just as unfair to attribute my conviction to mere mawkishness

—p.178 Reflections on the Guillotine (173) by Albert Camus
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socialism of the gallows

In conclusion, I believe [...] that the indispensable conditions for intellectual creation and historical justice are liberty and the free confronting of differences. Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. But without freedom, no soci…

—p.171 Socialism of the Gallows (165) by Albert Camus
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the evils that totalitarianism claims to remedy

In order to strike a construtive note, however, I shall propose as one of the preliminaries to any future gathering the unqualified acceptance of the following principle: none of the evils that totalitarianism (defined by the single party and the suppression of all opposition) claims to remedy is w…

—p.171 Socialism of the Gallows (165) by Albert Camus