In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf 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.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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