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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.

Zora Neale Hurston

Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
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
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
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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Book Herself Reading
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Herself Moon Rise
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Children Herself Opportunity
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Different Himself Oneself World
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.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart

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