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The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.

— Stephen Crane The Clan of No Name (1899)

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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.

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

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