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).

(noun) the lowest degree of volition / (noun) a slight wish or tendency; inclination

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With a scalpel Eliot dissects degrees of human velleity

I thought it had something to do with being veiled lol

—p.33 Middlemarch and Everybody (29) by Zadie Smith
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7 years, 6 months ago


out of the moment's velleity, lay it right out for the young fool

—p.715 by Thomas Pynchon
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1 year, 11 months ago


I think good style is a matter of rendering out of oneself all the cupidities, all the cripplings, all the velleities.

—p.266 NORMAN MAILER (251) by Norman Mailer
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10 months ago