The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove, I find, is like singing.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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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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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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