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It was the meanest moment of eternity.

Zora Neale Hurston

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
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
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
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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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
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
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
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
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
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
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
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Grown Up People Thinking
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
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
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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Family Humor Myself Nation See
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search

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