An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMystery is the essence of divinity
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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When one is too old for love, 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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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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