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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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