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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Zora Neale Hurston

I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Appearance Laugh Love Myself
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Light People See Yourself
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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God Live
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Heart Hope Yourself
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
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.
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Different Love Philosophy Sea
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
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
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Live Season Spring

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