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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.

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

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

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.

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,

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

Nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.

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

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

A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle.

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

None of them knew the color of the sky.

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

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

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

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.

Half of tradition is a lie.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every sin is the result of a colaboration

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

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

Everything is bicycle.

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

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

Let me into the darkness again.

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

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

His feet where retarded.

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

If You Ain't Afraid, Go Do It Then

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

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.

That is the most odiously aristocratic belief,

Every sin is the result of a collaboration

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

Every sin is the result of collaboration.

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.

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

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

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

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

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

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

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

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

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")

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

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

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

Doubtless there are other roads.