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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.

Zora Neale Hurston

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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Death Light People See Yourself
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
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
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
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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Children Herself Opportunity
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
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
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.
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God Live
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
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

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 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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