Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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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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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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