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10997098 No.10997098 [Reply] [Original]

Do you guys write down quotes you like or that mean a lot to you while reading a book?

>> No.10997103

>>10997098
No. Not only is that gay, it is impossible to live an aphoristic lifestyle.

>> No.10997106

I highlight them on kindle and post them in my tumblr, I made a script in python to do it automatic.

If it's a paper book sometimes I take photos and post them too, so when I want to read I just browse the tag.

>> No.10997107

Occasionally. Last I wrote:
>Christianity doesn't exist.
-Soren Kierkegaard

>> No.10997126

>>10997098
Yes, as I read I put marks next to important passages then go back and sift through the book later and write them all down into a big notebook with thick paper, then I transfer all that to a dokuwiki on a VPS with other media and things from the net to supplement it with.

>> No.10997257

>>10997098
Not really. I do write down interesting words though

>> No.10997316

>>10997098
Quotes are pseud af desu. Sure you might find something nice and clever but you destroy it as soon as you rip it out of the context of the overall text. The biggest offender is "brevity is the soul of wit," which comes from the most witless pedant in all of Hamlet.

>> No.10997325

>>10997316
thats why you copy down the page number with it, retard

>> No.10997335

>>10997325
Still comes at the expense of the text, pseud. Memorize poems instead.

>> No.10997343

>>10997335
>Poems
Sorry I'm not a gay

>> No.10997350

>>10997316
> Quotes are pseud af desu.

Truer words have never been spoke.
People who quote Socrates or Nietzsche make me wanna shoot up a school.

>> No.10997356

>>10997350
spoken*

>> No.10997362
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10997362

>>10997350
>Quotes have to be for the public and not personal benefit

>> No.10997371

>>10997350
I hope for your sake that you never meet that retard that posts Plotinus quotes around here or you're going to shoot up a school for real

>> No.10997376

>>10997350
yeah although it's great when there is an aphoristic philosopher worth their salt. It can be a bitch to read into their system but once you're writing a paper on them it's so much easier to cite them.

>> No.10997500

>>10997103
>aphoristic lifestyle
When I annotate or take quotes from a book, It's not the quote I'm saving, but the emotions that I experienced while reading that quote. Going back and seeing my work will instantly have my brain make the connection back to my initial feelings.
It does make me feel happy, and you're right, I'm not living an aphoristic life, mine is full of personal sentiment.

>> No.10997505

>>10997098
no

>> No.10997510

>>10997103

"It is impossible to live an aphoristic lifestyle."

—an aphorism

>> No.10997716

>>10997106
So in this script every time you highlight something on your kindle it posts it on tumblr? lol I should learn to fucking code

>> No.10998303

>>10997098
Yep, but mostly just because I have really shitty memory.

>> No.10998319
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10998319

>>10997107
>muh paradoxes
it fits the bill

>> No.10998325

>>10997098
Yes sometimes, it's also a good way to practise my calligraphy.
I have one note book for song lyrics, another for word definitions, and the third for quotes.
In high-school I had a teacher who said that every time you read something and you come across a word you don't know write it down and go look up the definition. Kind of stuck with me and I try to remember to do it as often as I can.

>> No.10998326

>>10997098
Yea

>> No.10999483

>>10998319
desu that one's not even a paradox, Kierkegaard just didn't like the Established Church

>> No.10999550

>>10999483
Becuase he's a one giant flying baby faggot. (((his))) words written down is a waste of paper.

>> No.10999555

>>10999550
fuck off catholicuck

>> No.10999742

>>10997335
>poems instead
Opinion discarded

>> No.10999762

>>10997098
I literally have a small book of short lines I write to remember. Some of them are quotes.

>> No.10999777

No, but I have a tendency for intrusive thoughts so it'll repeat constantly in my head for a while, sometimes from books I've read months or years ago.

>> No.11000761

>>10997098
i highlight them on my kindle