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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

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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Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
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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Book Herself Reading
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Funny Quick Right
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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Herself Moon Rise
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Be Yourself Herself Instagram Captions
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
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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Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
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
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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night

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