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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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a story in which you no longer believed

“When you were talking to him, discussing any subject at all, X frequently seemed to be looking away, listening to something else: you broke off, discouraged; after a long silence, X would say: ‘Go on, I'm listening to you'; then you resumed as best you could the thread of a story in which you no l…

—p.167 A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
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we might call it a proffering

[...] We might call it a proffering, which has no scientific place: I-love-you belongs neither in the realm of linguistics nor in that of semiology. Its occasion (the point of departure for speaking it) would be, rather, Music. [...]

—p.149 by Roland Barthes
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divagation

I repeat it exclusive of any pertinence; it comes out of the language, it divagates—where?

—p.147 by Roland Barthes
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abnegation

I intone, within myself, the exalted hallucination of closure; a vainglory of abnegation seizes me (renouncing love but not friendship, etc.),

—p.141 by Roland Barthes
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imbroglio

And in the center of this little society, at once an ethnological village and a boulevard comedy, parental structure and comic imbroglio

—p.138 by Roland Barthes
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