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A digital commonplace book. Private by default, free forever. A quiet shelf for the words worth keeping.

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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 18h
The best sentence in a book deserves more than a dog-eared page. Locus Communis lets you read, capture the passage word for word, and build a library of the lines that stayed with you. Start yours at locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 19h
His picture for this was the bow and the lyre: pulled two ways at once, and that pull is what makes them work. Where in your life is the tension the thing holding it together?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 19h
"From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony." Heraclitus, Fragments #books #philosophy #ancientgreece #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 29/09/2026
A commonplace book is where you keep the lines worth keeping. Locus Communis is one you can carry: read, mark the passage, save the exact words, and share what you keep. Start yours at locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 29/09/2026
Heraclitus wrote a whole book and it was lost. Everything we have survives as fragments, quoted by later writers who could not let the lines go. This week is seven of them. What is a river you know you can never step back into?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 29/09/2026
"The river where you set your foot just now is gone: those waters giving way to this, now this." Heraclitus, Fragments #books #philosophy #heraclitus #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 28/09/2026
Holiday opens on Nightingale as a girl, before her family and her whole class taught her what a lady was not supposed to do. What did you fear less before you knew any better?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 28/09/2026
"Before she knew any better, Florence Nightingale was fearless." Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling #books #nonfiction #history #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 27/09/2026
If anyone has any issues, feel free to give me a shout.
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 27/09/2026
Seneca to Lucilius: the trial is what makes the man, and if you take it away you take the greatness with it. Is there a hard thing in your life you would not trade away in hindsight?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 27/09/2026
"It was the hemlock that made Socrates great. Wrest from Cato his sword, his guarantor of liberty, and you take away the greater part of his glory." Seneca, Letters on Ethics #books #philosophy #stoicism #booksky
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liz @bookjanitor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
another nice leaf from @locuscommunis.com! the Simone Weil and bell hooks excerpts are very relevant to some of my work this week. i’m grateful and proud that my marriage is rooted the joy of learning and the mutual growth that sharing knowledge brings. #booksky
Today's leaf · September 26, 2026

“In my age we have come anew to see history as driven not by DNA and economics, but by man. And woman. And so must you.” — Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning (2016)

“The Mardis thought that three things make wars more or less terrible: the length of the peace before them, the amount of technological change, and how little the commanders know about war’s up-to-date” — Ada Palmer, Seven Surrenders (2017)

“There are still too few models of heterosexual relationships in which mutual growth is the foundational bonding principle.” — bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002)

“The intelligence can only be led by desire. For there to be desire, there must be pleasure and joy in the work. The intelligence only grows and bears fruit in joy. The joy of learning is as indispensa” — Simone Weil, Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us (2018)

“But collective representations very frequently attribute to the things to which they are attached qualities which do not exist under any form or to any degree. Out of the commonest object, they can ma” — Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912)"The intelligence can only be led by desire. For there to be desire, there must be pleasure and joy in the work. The intelligence only grows and bears fruit in joy. The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running." — Simone Weil, Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us (2018)"There are still too few models of heterosexual relationships in which mutual growth is the foundational bonding principle." — bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002)
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 26/09/2026
Dan Davis and his cat Pete, who checks every door in the house each winter, certain one of them opens onto summer. Which book do you reach for when you need that door?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 26/09/2026
"But there was winter in my heart and I was looking for the door to summer." Robert A. Heinlein, The Door into Summer #books #scifi #sciencefiction #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 25/09/2026
Clear's rule for bad days: scale the habit down, never to zero. What is the smallest version of a habit you have kept alive on a day you wanted to skip it?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 25/09/2026
"It's better to do less than you hoped, than nothing at all." James Clear, Atomic Habits #books #selfimprovement #habits #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 25/09/2026
Read anywhere, mark the passage, keep the exact words. Locus Communis turns the lines you love into a commonplace book you actually return to. Start yours at locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 24/09/2026
Usually rendered as character is destiny, from a fragment that has survived about twenty-five centuries. Does it still hold up for you, or is it too tidy?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 24/09/2026
"One's bearing shapes one's fate." Heraclitus, Fragments #books #philosophy #heraclitus #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 24/09/2026
The best sentence in a book deserves more than a dog-eared page. Locus Communis lets you read, capture the passage word for word, and build a library of the lines that stayed with you. Start yours at locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 23/09/2026
Camus's answer to the question he opens the book with. The absurd is not solved, it is kept. What do you keep going for without needing it to make sense first?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 23/09/2026
"Living is keeping the absurd alive." Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus #books #philosophy #existentialism #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 23/09/2026
A commonplace book is where you keep the lines worth keeping. Locus Communis is one you can carry: read, mark the passage, save the exact words, and share what you keep. Start yours at locuscommunis.com/signup #commonplace #reading #bookclub #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 22/09/2026
Nora Seed's home town on the worst day of her life, a few pages before she finds the library. Has a place ever looked completely different depending on the day you walked through it?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 22/09/2026
"The town was a conveyor belt of despair." Matt Haig, The Midnight Library #books #fiction #matthaig #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 21/09/2026
Probably the Myth of Sisyphus. There's a lot to think about in there.
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 20/09/2026
Camus on the phenomenologists, early in The Myth of Sisyphus. When did you last look at something ordinary as if for the first time?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 20/09/2026
"Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place." Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus #books #philosophy #camus #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 19/09/2026
Lukas the Trickster, the Space Wolf nobody wants in their pack. How do you tell your purpose apart from what you just happen to want?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 19/09/2026
"Are you so blind that you cannot tell purpose from desire?" Joshua Reynolds, Lukas the Trickster #books #warhammer40k #scifi #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 18/09/2026
On calling crypto tokens a currency. What is a label you have watched get stretched past the point of meaning?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 18/09/2026
"You could call a brick a soccer ball, but I wouldn't recommend using it that way." Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman, Easy Money #books #crypto #finance #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 17/09/2026
Take the whole thing with you, literally. Export your journal to Markdown or JSON anytime, or press it into a printable book. Even a club's anthology presses into a real object. It is yours to keep. locuscommunis.com/signup #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 17/09/2026
Diamond insisting that explaining how something happened is not the same as excusing it. Where do you see that line get blurred most often?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 17/09/2026
"What use one makes of a historical explanation is a question separate from the explanation itself." Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel #books #history #nonfiction #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 16/09/2026
Your margin notes and the passages you keep gather into a journal, a page for each day. Old passages resurface as a daily leaf, so you reread what you once loved. A journal that is genuinely yours. locuscommunis.com/signup #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 16/09/2026
A Hollywood agent lands the strangest client of his career: an alien species that needs better PR. Who would you trust to introduce us to the rest of the universe?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 16/09/2026
"It's one thing to sell a book of poems. It's another thing entirely to introduce a planet to a thing they've hoped for and feared for a century." John Scalzi, Agent to the Stars #books #scifi #sciencefiction #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 15/09/2026
The words you keep here become a journal that is genuinely yours. Every passage, every note in the margin, ready to walk out the door with you whenever you want. If you ever leave, it leaves with you. locuscommunis.com/signup #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 15/09/2026
Written in 1917 from a hospital ward, aimed at the schoolroom Latin that sent his generation to the trenches. Is there a line you learned young that you later had to unlearn?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 15/09/2026
"The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori." Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est #books #poetry #warpoetry #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 14/09/2026
Sinek's point is that the brain doing the buying has not changed in fifty thousand years. What was the last thing you bought on gut feeling and justified afterwards?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 14/09/2026
"The only difference between you and a caveman is the car you drive." Simon Sinek, Start With Why #books #leadership #nonfiction #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 13/09/2026
I';m also looking for a custom printing option with like a boutique bindery or something. That'll be fun to build.
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 13/09/2026
The fact that your using the site is the reason I built it. Also shout out PoffinB, and my mysterious Italian user who I don't know. (I'll bump your accounts up too, just give me a shout).
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 13/09/2026
@bookjanitor.bsky.social I bumped your account up to a Founder status. It'll pretty much mean you don't have to worry about paying anything for the stuff that ends up costing the site money. Daily emails and like OCR tie back to some usage based APIs, so if you don't mind hiccups.
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 13/09/2026
Going to be hooking up the daily leaf to be sent once a day with a weekly digest. Opt in only, just a heads up if you want it in your inbox. #buildinpublic #newfeature
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 13/09/2026
What would a guest marvel at in your house, once they stopped looking at the things?
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 13/09/2026
"A person entering our house should marvel at the inhabitant, not at the dinnerware." Seneca, Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius #books #stoicism #seneca #booksky
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Locus Communis @locuscommunis.com · 12/09/2026
Is it the freedom to choose that unsettles people, or the responsibility that comes with it?
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