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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
Robert E. Howard
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Robert E. Howard
Age: 30 †
Born: 1906
Born: January 22
Died: 1936
Died: June 11
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What always was must always be.
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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.
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The printed page was like wine to me.
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What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.
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I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!
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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
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Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.
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A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.
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