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161 " 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... "
― William Styron , Sophie's Choice
162 " —retaining the other half for yourself in savings for the future. Thereupon, at Mr. Pemberton’s good report of your labor—and again I have no doubt that this might be anything but exemplary—I shall draw up the papers for your emancipation. You will then at the age of twenty-five be a free man.” He paused and gave my shoulder a soft nudge with his gloved fist, adding: “I shall only stipulate that you return to Turner’s Mill for a visit every blue moon or two—with whichever young darky girl you have taken for a wife! "
― William Styron , The Confessions of Nat Turner
163 " 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. "
164 " The query: “At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?” And the answer: “Where was man? "
165 " What causes human beings to inflict upon themselves these stupid little scissor snips of unhappy remembrance? "
166 " For me the real healers were seclusion and time. "
― William Styron , Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
167 " 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. "
168 " 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. "
169 " Somehow I still could not believe that this life we all have together would ever be changed. "
170 " 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. "
171 " She was determined to put behind her the madness of the past—or as much as a vulnerable and memory-racked mind permitted— "
172 " Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie's life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?"And the answer: "Where was man? "
173 " For those who have dwelt in depression's dark wood, and known its inexplicable agony, their return from the abyss is not unlike the ascent of the poet, trudging upward and upward out of hell's black depths and at last emerging into what he saw as "the shining world." There, whoever has been restored to health has almost always been restored to the capacity for serenity and joy, and this may be indemnity enough for having endured the despair beyond despair.E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. "
174 " İyi bir kitap... sonunda seni azıcık yorgun bırakmalı. Onu okurken bir sürü hayat yaşıyorsun. "
― William Styron
175 " Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds of inhuman time, in which men fall into the slow hands of the living damnation? "
176 " A cat loped across my gaze with a squint-eyed, piratical look, and a suave grin. "
177 " و عليه ان يقحم نفسه في مواقف اجتماعية و أسرية لا طاقة له بها، و في هذه المواقف و على الرغم من الألم الذي يتلهم دماغه يجب أن يظهر بوجه يشبه ذلك الذي يظهر به في الظروف الطبيعية ووسط رفاقه و أصحابه، و يجب عليه محاولة الانخراط في الأحاديث التافهة و أن يجيب عن الأسئلة التي توجه اليه و يومئ و يكشر، بل و حتى عليه أعانه الله أن يبتسم، كل ذلك يحدث على الرغم من أن محاوله التلفظ ببضع كلمات بسيطة تمثل له معاناة رهيبة. "
178 " بات هناك اقتناع كبير بأن الأشخاص ذوي الميول الفنية و الأدبية و لا سيما الشعراء منهم، هم الأكر عرضة للإصابة بهذا الاضطراب. "
179 " لم أستطيع أبداً أن أعرف السبب المسؤول عن اصابتي بالإكتئاب، كما لن يعرف أي أحدٍ السبب وراء اكتئابه، و سوف تظل معرفة ذلك غالباً و إلى الأبد ضرباً من المستحيل. "
180 " إنّ الأشخاص المصابين بالإكتئاب عادةً ما تقتصر خطورتهم على أنفسهم، و عموماً فإن جنون الإكتئاب هو نقيض العنف، انه عاصفة فعلاً و لكنها عاصفة ضبابية كثيفة. "