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 HURSTONHe 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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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