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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Life Struggle
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Herself Love Sun
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Human Yourself
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Heart Herself Night
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Heart Hope Yourself
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
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Fear Herself Understand
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

God Live

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