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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

Zora Neale Hurston

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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Different Love Sea
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
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
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
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
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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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
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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Different Himself Oneself 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
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself

Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

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