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Patricia Highsmith

There was a faint air of sadness about him now. He enjoyed the change. He imagined that he looked like a young man who had had an unhappy love affair or some kind of emotional disaster, and was trying to recuperate in a civilized way, by visiting some of the more beautiful places on Earth.

Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley, New York, 1955, p. 186