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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

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
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
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
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Heart Hope Yourself
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
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
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
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Philosophy Sea
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
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
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
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
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

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