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

Stephen Crane

A Man Said to the Universe

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Topic

Man and the universe

Author

Stephen Crane

Source

A Man Said to the Universe

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Crane, Stephen. "A Man Said to the Universe." War is Kind and Other Lines. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899, I. 1.

Current Citation

Crane, Stephen. "A Man Said to the Universe." War is Kind and Other Lines. Dover Publications, 2016, I. 1.

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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Naval Treaty

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Topic
Flowers Beauty of nature Nature of God
Speaker
Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle
Source
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty
Medium
Short story Magazine
Genre
Detective fiction
Language
English
Time
1893 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty." The Strand Magazine. London, 1893.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Naval Treaty." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2023.