Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to… - Stephen Crane

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Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles. Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he was filled with a momentary astonishment that he should have made an extraordinary commotion over the mere matter of getting killed.

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Stephen Crane (1 November 1871 – 5 June 1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist.

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