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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
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
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
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
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
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
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
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Appearance Laugh Love Myself
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
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
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
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
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
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
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

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