He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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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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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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