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1. "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
2. "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
3. "Half of tradition is a lie." ~ Stephen Crane
4. "A learned man came to me once.He said, "I know the way, -- come."And I was overjoyed at this.Together we hastened.Soon, too soon, were weWhere my eyes were useless,And I knew not the ways of my feet.I clung to the hand of my friend;But at last he cried, "I am lost." ~ Stephen Crane
5. "Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature." ~ Stephen Crane
6. "XXVIII"Truth," said a traveller,"Is a rock, a mighty fortress;"Often have I been to it,"Even to its highest tower,"From whence the world looks black.""Truth," said a traveller,"Is a breath, a wind,"A shadow, a phantom;"Long have I pursued it,"But never have I touched "The hem of its garment."And I believed the second traveller;For truth was to meA breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom,And never had I touchedThe hem of its garment." ~ Stephen Crane
7. "Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son,Do not weep.War is kind." ~ Stephen Crane
8. "Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep.War is kind.Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die.The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie.Do not weep, babe, for war is kind." ~ Stephen Crane
9. "But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and moon were about to clash, many persons would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision." ~ Stephen Crane
10. "And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends." ~ Stephen Crane
11. "A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy." ~ Stephen Crane
12. "The lieutenant, returning from a tour after a bandage, produced from a hidden receptacle of his mind new and portentous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his men, and it was evident that his previous efforts had in nowise impaired his resources." ~ Stephen Crane
13. "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
14. "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
15. "A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in meA sense of obligation." ~ Stephen Crane
16. "IVYes, I have a thousand tongues,And nine and nighty-nine lie.Though I strive to use the one,It will make no melody at my will, But is dead in my mouth." ~ Stephen Crane
17. "We picture the world as thick with conquering and elate humanity, but here, with the bugles of the tempest peeling, it was hard to imagine a peopled earth. One viewed the existence of man then as a marvel, and conceded a glamour of wonder to these lice which were caused to cling to a whirling, fire-smitten, ice-locked, disease-stricken, space-lost bulb. The conceit of man was explained by this storm to be the very engine of life. One was a coxcomb not to die in it." ~ Stephen Crane
18. "So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed." ~ Stephen Crane
19. "They would jeer him, and, if practicable, pelt him with missiles." ~ Stephen Crane
20. "As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors." ~ Stephen Crane
21. "LCVIIf I should cast off this tattered coat,And go free into the mighty sky;If I should find nothing thereBut a bast blue,Echoless, ignorant,-What then?" ~ Stephen Crane
22. "The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle." ~ Stephen Crane
23. "One viewed the existence of man then as a marvel, and conceded a glamour of wonder to these lice which were caused to cling to a whirling, fire-smote, ice-locked, disease-stricken, space-lost bulb." ~ Stephen Crane
24. "To her the earth was composed of hardships and insults. She felt instant admiration for a man who openly defied it. She thought that if the grim angel of death should clutch his heart, Pete would shrug his shoulders and say, "Oh, ev'ryt'ing goes."She anticipated that he would come again shortly. She spent some of her week's pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin. She made it with infinite care, and hung it to the slightly careening mantel over the stove in the kitchen. She studied it with painful anxiety from different points in the room. She wanted it to look well on Sunday night when, perhaps, Jimmie's friend would come. On Sunday night, however, Pete did not appear.Afterwards the girl looked at it with a sense of humiliation. She was now convinced that Pete was superior to admiration for lambrequins." ~ Stephen Crane
25. "Every sin is the result of a collaboration" ~ Stephen Crane
26. "Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea." ~ Stephen Crane
27. "But he instantly saw that it would be impossible for him to escape from the regiment. It inclosed him. And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides. He was in a moving box" ~ Stephen Crane
28. "There was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing,And in truth it was lamentable.But there was one who heardThe clip-clapper of this tongue of woodAnd knew what the manWished to sing,And with that the singer was content." ~ Stephen Crane
29. "A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles." ~ Stephen Crane
30. "When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me." ~ Stephen Crane
31. "It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another." ~ Stephen Crane
32. "In the desertI saw a creature, naked, bestial,Who, squatting upon the ground,Held his heart in his hands,And ate of it.I said, ‘Is it good, friend?'‘It is bitter — bitter,' he answered,‘But I like itBecause it is bitter,And because it is my heart." ~ Stephen Crane
33. "It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws." ~ Stephen Crane
34. "Tell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap his hands with corpsesUntil he stands like a childWith surplus of toys." ~ Stephen Crane
35. "Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?" ~ Stephen Crane
36. "The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulnerable dead man forced a way for himself. The youth looked keenly at the ashen face. The wind raised the tawny beard. It moved as if a hand were stroking it. 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
37. "When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples." ~ Stephen Crane
38. "Two or three angelsCame near to the earth.They saw a fat church.Little black streams of peopleCame and went in continually.And the angels were puzzledTo know why the people went thus,And why they stayed so long within." ~ Stephen Crane
39. "The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks." ~ Stephen Crane
40. "The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop." ~ Stephen Crane
41. "Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night." ~ Stephen Crane
42. "XXVIThere was set before me a mighty hill,And long days I climbedThrough regions of snow.When I had before me the summit-view,It seemed my laborHad been to see gardensLying at impossible distances." ~ Stephen Crane
43. "There were many who went in huddled procession,They knew not wither,But, at any rate, success or calamityWould attend all in equality.There was one who sought a new road,He went into direful thickets,And ultimately he died thus, alone;But they said he had courage." ~ Stephen Crane
44. "The correspondent wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it amusing to row a boat. It was not an amusement; it was a diabolical punishment, and even a genius of mental aberrations could never conclude that it was anything but a horror to the muscles and a crime against the back." ~ Stephen Crane
45. "He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been very proper and just. It had been necessary for him to swallow swords that he might have a better throat for grapes." ~ Stephen Crane
46. "I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. One looked up, grinning, And said, "Comrade! Brother!" ~ Stephen Crane
47. "His feet where retarded." ~ Stephen Crane
48. "A wound gives strange dignity to him who bears it. Well men shy from his new and terrible majesty. It is as if the wounded man's hand is upon the curtain which hangs before the revelations of all existence - the meaning of ants, potentates, wars, cities, sunshine, snow, a feather dropped from a bird's wing; and the power of it sheds radiance upon a bloody form, and makes the other men understand sometimes that they are little. His comrades look at him with large eyes thoughtfully. Moreover, they fear vaguely that the weight of a finger upon him might send him headlong, precipitate the tragedy, hurl him at once into the dim, gray unknown.("An Episode Of War")" ~ Stephen Crane
49. "If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees?" ~ Stephen Crane
50. "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
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it."
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