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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

Zora Neale Hurston

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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Mindset Myself
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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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Deep Live Love Philosophy
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See

She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

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