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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Heart Hope Yourself
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Live Marriage Spirit
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Eyes Myself Yourself
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Light Sun Walk
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

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

Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence 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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
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

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