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

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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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lapidary

vague lapidary air

this fucking word

—p.54 by Roberto Bolaño
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salubrious

although their function was somatic he was experiencing less than salubrious mental side effects

—p.483 by Jonathan Franzen
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