“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.”

—  Stephen Crane , book The Black Riders and Other Lines

Source: The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895), XIII

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American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist 1871–1900

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