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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.

Zora Neale Hurston

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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Different Love Sea
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Appearance Laugh Love Myself
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
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
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
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
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Funny Quick Right
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 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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Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
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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Herself Moon Rise
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
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

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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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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