Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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agape

This kind of activity is known as agape, or love, and has nothing to do with erotic or even affectionate feelings.

—p.95 Is life what you make it? (78) by Terry Eagleton
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coterie

It takes the meaning-of-life question out of the hands of a coterie of adepts or cognoscenti and returns it to the routine business of everyday existence.

—p.95 Is life what you make it? (78) by Terry Eagleton
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cognoscenti

It takes the meaning-of-life question out of the hands of a coterie of adepts or cognoscenti and returns it to the routine business of everyday existence.

—p.95 Is life what you make it? (78) by Terry Eagleton
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jouissance

The frantic jouissance of seizing the day, gathering rosebuds, downing an extra glass, and living like there’s no tomorrow is a desperate strategy for outwitting death, one which seeks pointlessly to cheat it rather than to make something of it.

—p.91 Is life what you make it? (78) by Terry Eagleton
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