"What one does not remember contains the only hope, danger, trap, inexorability, of love--only love can help you recognize what you do not remember. And memory makes its only real appearance in this life as this life is ending--appearing, at last, as a kind of guide into a condition which is as far beyond memory as it is beyond imagination...
My memory stammers: but my soul is a witness."
- Preface, The Evidence of Things Not Seen - James Baldwin.
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JB's the man... he always knew what he was talking about. I'm reading, "Going to Meet the Man" right now. I fall in love again every time I open one of his books.
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