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1. "If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta." ~ Jean Toomer
2. "Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream." ~ Jean Toomer
3. "Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily." ~ Jean Toomer
4. "We learn the rope of life by untying its knots." ~ Jean Toomer
5. "whisper of yellow globesgleaming on lamp posts that swaylike bootleg licker drinkers in the fogand let your breath be moist against melike bright beads on yellow globestelephone the power-housethat the main wires are insulate(her words play up and down dewy corridors of billboards)then with your tongue remove the tapeand press your lips to minetill they are incandescent" ~ Jean Toomer
6. "You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed." ~ Jean Toomer
7. "Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death." ~ Jean Toomer
8. "Muriel seeks happiness and beauty. Dan informs her that life is a balance between the two, between suffering and laughter, beauty and ugliness. 'There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death. Not happy, Muriel. Say that you have tried to make them CREATE." ~ Jean Toomer
9. "Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do in Georgia, particularly at dusk. I felt that things unseen to men were tangibly immediate. It would not have surprised me had I had a vision." ~ Jean Toomer
10. "???? ??? ?????????? ????? ?? ??????? ???? ??????????? ??? ?????? ????? ??? ?????? ?????? ??? ?????????????? ???? ???? ??????????? ??????? ????? ???? ????????? ???? ?? ???? ????? ?????? ????????????? ??????? ????? ?????? ????????????? ?? ???? ???????? ????? ????? ???? ?? ?????? ??? ??? ???? ??? ??? ??? ?????? ??? ?? ????? ???? ????? ??? ???????????? ????? ???? ?????? ?????? ?? ???? ???????????? ??? ?? ?? ??? ?? ??? ??: ???? ???? ???? ?? ???? ????? ?????????? ?? ???? ???? ??? ?? ??? ??? ????? ?? ?????.Jean Toomer1894-1967" ~ Jean Toomer
11. "Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman." ~ Jean Toomer
12. "Her dress was of some fine, costly stuff. I suggested the park, and then added that the grass might stain her skirt. Let it get stained, she said, for where it came from there are others." ~ Jean Toomer
13. "But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em,there's times when they jes wontcome." ~ Jean Toomer
14. "Night winds in Georgia are vagrant poets, whispering." ~ Jean Toomer
15. "Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?" ~ Jean Toomer
16. "It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist." ~ Jean Toomer
17. "Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it." ~ Jean Toomer
18. "People mistake their limitations for high standards." ~ Jean Toomer
19. "The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing." ~ Jean Toomer
20. "Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own." ~ Jean Toomer
21. "No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight." ~ Jean Toomer
22. "Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity." ~ Jean Toomer
23. "Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles." ~ Jean Toomer
24. "I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become." ~ Jean Toomer
25. "Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters." ~ Jean Toomer

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The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can't escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die."
Author: C.J. Sansom

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