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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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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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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.
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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.
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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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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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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.
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But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
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I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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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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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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