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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

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 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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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God Live
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
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
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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Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Book Herself Reading
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
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

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

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