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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Heart Hope Yourself
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Different Himself Oneself World
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
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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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
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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Death Light People See Yourself

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