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The Commonplace Book
抜書帖 — nukigaki-chō
For centuries, readers kept a book of the lines that stopped them — Marcus Aurelius, Thoreau, and Virginia Woolf among them. This one is yours. Press Keep on any passage and it will wait for you here.
Vincent van Gogh · The Starry Night · 1889
The pages are still blank.
When a passage stops you — when a line says the thing you couldn’t — keep it. Your book fills one quiet evening at a time.
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