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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Zora Neale Hurston

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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Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
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
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Appearance Laugh Love Myself
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

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