Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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