To determine not to think of it was but to think of it still, to suffer from it still.
in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them
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in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them
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