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The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.
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It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
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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,
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It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.
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Nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.
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Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.
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A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.
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The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle.
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This poor gambler isn't even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.
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None of them knew the color of the sky.
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He turned now with a lover's thirst to images of tranquil skies, fresh meadows, cool brooks - an existence of soft and eternal peace.
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If a man loves a woman better than the whole universe, how much does he love the whole universe?
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The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.
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A MAN FEAREDA 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.
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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.
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You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.
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When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.
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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.
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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.
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His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.
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He was submitting, submitting because of his fathers, bending his mind in a most perfect slavery to this conflagration.
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A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.
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Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?
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So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed.
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Through his suffering, he peers into the core of things and sees that the judgment of man is thistle-down in the wind.
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Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.
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And, furthermore, how could they kill him who was the chosen of gods and doomed to greatness?
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Every sin is the result of a colaboration
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She performed nearly all the house-work in exchange for the privilege of existence. Every
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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.
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Let me into the darkness again.
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Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.
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He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.
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His feet where retarded.
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It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.
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Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.
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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")
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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,
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If You Ain't Afraid, Go Do It Then
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I like the people. But, considered generally, they are a collection of ingenious blockheads.
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Each man in this stretcher party had gained a reflected majesty. They were footmen to death, and
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You look like the cat that swallowed the cream," Stephen said softly."That comes later. — K.J. Charles
Everything is bicycle.
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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.
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As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
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I saw a man pursuing the horizon
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What a woman says doesn't amount to shucks. It's the way she says it - that's what counts.
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The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.
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Every sin is the result of collaboration.
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Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian maiden, of course.
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration
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The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks.
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It is useless to expect appreciation of his profound and fine senses from such men as the lieutenant.
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Doubtless there are other roads.
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