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My choice: James Joyce, A Painful Case.

“He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor her voice touch his ear.
He waited for some minutes listening.
He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent.
He felt that he was alone.”.