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Book: Sophie's Choice
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
She was determined to put behind her the madness of the past-or as much as a vulnerable and memory-racked mind permitted-
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
Somehow I still could not believe that this life we all have together would ever be changed.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
But I could tell from the way his muscles become stiff and this trembling that ran through him that he was finished with me. Even so I couldn't stop.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
She had not planned to weep-it was the last thing from her mind, a display of mawkish weakness-but she could not help it.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
What causes human beings to inflict upon themselves these stupid little scissor snips of unhappy remembrance?
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" And the answer: "Where was man?
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
they appeared from where I stood as peaceful as two lovers who had gaily costumed themselves for an afternoon stroll, but on impulse had decided to lie down and nap, or kiss and make love, or merely whisper to each other of fond matters, and were frozen in this grave and tender embrace forever.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles...
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
Sophie slept, understanding with a dreamer's fierce clarity that she was doomed.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
it is more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
I was so completely dependent on him, you see, and that was not a healthy thing."
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