"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."
Ch. 9 - The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
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~Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 β June 5, 1900)