Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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 kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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