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He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question. — Stephen Crane

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop. — Stephen Crane

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws. — Stephen Crane

Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind. — Stephen Crane

He had been out among the dragons, he said, and he assured himself that they were not so hideous as he had imagined them. Also, — Stephen Crane

It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment. — Stephen Crane

Nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe. — Stephen Crane

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee. — Stephen Crane

They were going to look at war, the red
animal
war, the blood-swollen god. — Stephen Crane

A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death. — Stephen Crane

The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle. — Stephen Crane

This poor gambler isn't even a noun. He is kind of an adverb. — Stephen Crane

None of them knew the color of the sky. — Stephen Crane

He turned now with a lover's thirst to images of tranquil skies, fresh meadows, cool brooks - an existence of soft and eternal peace. — Stephen Crane

If a man loves a woman better than the whole universe, how much does he love the whole universe? — Stephen Crane

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe. — Stephen Crane

A MAN FEARED
A man feared that he might find an assassin;
Another that he might find a victim.
One was more wise than the other. — Stephen Crane

Half of tradition is a lie. — Stephen Crane

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer. — Stephen Crane

You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming. — Stephen Crane

When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me. — Stephen Crane

The conceit of man was explained by this storm to be the very engine of life. One — Stephen Crane

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. — Stephen Crane

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad. — Stephen Crane

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend. — Stephen Crane

He was submitting, submitting because of his fathers, bending his mind in a most perfect slavery to this conflagration. — Stephen Crane

All men are. I declare, I think you to be the most incomprehensible creatures. — Stephen Crane

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation. — Stephen Crane

Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: Deh moon looks like hell, don't it? — Stephen Crane

So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed. — Stephen Crane

They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles. — Stephen Crane

Through his suffering, he peers into the core of things and sees that the judgment of man is thistle-down in the wind. — Stephen Crane

Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. — Stephen Crane

And, furthermore, how could they kill him who was the chosen of gods and doomed to greatness? — Stephen Crane

Every sin is the result of a colaboration — Stephen Crane

She performed nearly all the house-work in exchange for the privilege of existence. Every — Stephen Crane

If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools. — Stephen Crane

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. — Stephen Crane

Let me into the darkness again. — Stephen Crane

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature. — Stephen Crane

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range. — Stephen Crane

His feet where retarded. — Stephen Crane

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible. — Stephen Crane

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night. — Stephen Crane

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog") — Stephen Crane

Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
War is kind. — Stephen Crane

There is nothing-
No life,
No joy,
No pain-
There is nothing save opinion,
And opinion be damned. — Stephen Crane

That is the most odiously aristocratic belief, — Stephen Crane

If You Ain't Afraid, Go Do It Then — Stephen Crane

I like the people. But, considered generally, they are a collection of ingenious blockheads. — Stephen Crane

Each man in this stretcher party had gained a reflected majesty. They were footmen to death, and — Stephen Crane

You look like the cat that swallowed the cream," Stephen said softly.
"That comes later. — K.J. Charles

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments. — Stephen Crane

Everything is bicycle. — Stephen Crane

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment. — Stephen Crane

As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. — Stephen Crane

I saw a man pursuing the horizon — Stephen Crane

I cannot help vanishing and disappearing and dissolving. It is my foremost trait. — Stephen Crane

What a woman says doesn't amount to shucks. It's the way she says it - that's what counts. — Stephen Crane

The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer. — Stephen Crane

Every sin is the result of collaboration. — Stephen Crane

The wind had a voice as it came over the waves, and it was sadder than the end. — Stephen Crane

Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian maiden, of course. — Stephen Crane

Every sin is the result of a collaboration — Stephen Crane

The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks. — Stephen Crane

It is useless to expect appreciation of his profound and fine senses from such men as the lieutenant. — Stephen Crane

Doubtless there are other roads. — Stephen Crane