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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 Hurston

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
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
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
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
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
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
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
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
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
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
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
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
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time

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.

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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.

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