Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie 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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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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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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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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