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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
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That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.
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Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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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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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
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