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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.

Zora Neale Hurston

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.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
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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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
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 starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
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
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Future Past Present
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See

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 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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