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Literature; life.

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When myths fall apart, revolutions happen.

Jason Hickel, The Divide

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“Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“She knew now that marriage did not make love.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“Some folks never was meant to be loved and he’s one of ’em.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“But anyhow Janie went on inside to wait for love to begin.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“Have some sympathy fuh me. Put me down easy, Janie, Ah’m a cracked plate.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“You can’t beat nobody down so low till you can rob ’em of they will.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“But nothing can’t stop you from wishin’.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“Instead she brushed back the heavy hair from Janie’s face and stood there suffering and loving and weeping internally for both of them.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“With her hand uplifted for the second blow she saw the huge tear that welled up from Janie’s heart and stood in each eye.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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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.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“Time makes everything old so the kissing, young darkness became a monstropolous old thing while Janie talked.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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“Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song.”

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God