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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Zora Neale Hurston

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
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
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
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
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 wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
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 makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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Deep Live Love Philosophy
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
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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Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

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