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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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