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“The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived – nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died – through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.” — James Baldwin

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The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived – nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died – through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain.
— James Baldwin