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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

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Herself Man Save See
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
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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Death Light People See Yourself
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hide Himself Love Place Soul
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Children Herself Opportunity
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
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
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Funny Quick Right
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Appearance Laugh Love Myself
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Heart Hope Yourself
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
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
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
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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Grown Up People Thinking
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hands Myself
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself

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

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