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It was the meanest moment of eternity.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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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Different Love Sea
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
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
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
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
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Funny Quick Right
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

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