This was not the man they had known, but they had scarcely expected to be confronted with ; this was, in a sense deeper than questions of fact, the man they had not known, and the man they had not known may have been the real one. The real man, whoever he had been, had suffered and now he was dead: this was all that was sure and all that mattered now.
( James Baldwin )
[ Notes of a Native Son ]
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