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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

Zora Neale Hurston

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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Death Easy Myself
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 love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Appearance Laugh Love Myself
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
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
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
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
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
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
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Heart Hope Yourself
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
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 HURSTON

Different Himself Oneself World
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

God Live
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Light People See Yourself
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Mindset Myself
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Doubt Myself

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