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Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

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I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

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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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I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

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Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.

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But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

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Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

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I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

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Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

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What always was must always be.

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Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

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Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

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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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