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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Zora Neale Hurston

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
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
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
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Philosophy Sea
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
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
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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Black Death Easy Myself
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
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
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

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

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