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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

Zora Neale Hurston

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Herself Man Save See
Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Divine Mystery One Liner
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Light People See Yourself
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Eyes Myself Yourself
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Flower God Reality Wine
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Himself Love Woman
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hurt Revenge World
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Different Love Philosophy Sea
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Big Distance Time
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Live Marriage Spirit
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Hide Place Soul
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Live Morning Myself

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