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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

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
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
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
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
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Friendship Live Morning Myself
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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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Mindset Myself
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself

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

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