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ineluctable
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995

How prosaic to relate this experience, these importunate, irrevocable, ineluctable facts!

—p.244 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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labefaction

The lineaments of my face establish themselves in handsome sanity and complacency: inside is labefaction and imminent death.

—p.212 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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invidious

If it is pleasant for a time, it is unpleasant eventually by our having to leave it soon, or by invidious comparison which all humans make with something better.

—p.185 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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weltanschauung

Possible basis for my weltanschauung. That the childishness is never lost, but adulthood put like a veneer over it.

—p.39 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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peremptory

replied my stepfather with didactic peremptoriness

—p.15 1941–1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing (5) by Patricia Highsmith
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