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At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

— Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

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

War Is Kind and Other Lines (1899)

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

The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

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

The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

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.

The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)

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