He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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