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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.

Zora Neale Hurston

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
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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Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
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
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Book Herself Reading
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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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy

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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