It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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