No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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