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“Obsessions are the only things that matter.”

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Patricia Highsmith

“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

Источник: The Price of Salt

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”

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Patricia Highsmith

“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Talented Mr. Ripley

Источник: The Talented Mr. Ripley

“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”

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Patricia Highsmith

“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Talented Mr. Ripley

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“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“The justice I have received, I shall give back.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Glass Cell

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“I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга Strangers on a Train

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“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга Strangers on a Train

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“How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!”

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Patricia Highsmith книга Strangers on a Train

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“She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“But when they kissed goodnight in bed, Therese felt their sudden release, that leap of response in both of them, as if their bodies were of some materials which put together inevitably created desire.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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“What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.”

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Patricia Highsmith книга The Price of Salt

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