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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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