Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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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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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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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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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.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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