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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

Zora Neale Hurston

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
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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Hands Myself
Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Sea
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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Different Himself Oneself World
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
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
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
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
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
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

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

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