Stephen Crane Quotes

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• These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or…
• Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the…
• The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.
• Every sin is the result of collaboration.
• It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.
• Doubtless there are other roads.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• I saw a man pursuing the horizon
• The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from…
• When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice…
• Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared…
• Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.
• Let me into the darkness again.
• In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I…
• 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…
• 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…
• A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.
• If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in…

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