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It was the meanest moment of eternity.

Zora Neale Hurston

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
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
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself 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
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
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
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
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

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