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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

Zora Neale Hurston

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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Different Himself Oneself World
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
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
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
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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Different Love Philosophy Sea
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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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
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Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
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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Grown Up People Thinking
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
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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Friendship Live Morning Myself
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
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 made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Mindset Myself
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

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