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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Zora Neale Hurston

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Hands Myself
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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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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Deep Live Love Philosophy
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.
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Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

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