Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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