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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
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
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
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
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
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Hands Myself
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
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
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

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