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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

Zora Neale Hurston

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
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
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Hands Myself
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
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
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
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
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
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

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