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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

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

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

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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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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.

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In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.

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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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Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

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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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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.

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How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

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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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A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

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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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I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. Let me live while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less than an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

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