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“Careful where you stare, Northman, lest someone cut your eye out,” he told the Cimmerian. Conan replied with deceptive mildness, “That blade is curved and light, fit to strike from the saddle. Afoot it is a child’s toy. These aren’t the
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“Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.”
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“All that is fair shall pass away; all that I love, all that I fear for—these shall the doctor take away, lifting them from my memory on the point of a steel blade. What has he to give in return? A hell of vapour, distorting sight; a hell of sound, drowning the soul.”
― The Mystery Of Choice
― The Mystery Of Choice
“I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.”
― Cugel the Clever
― Cugel the Clever
“Shall I tell you all about her, cat? She is very beautiful – your mistress,’ he murmured drowsily, ‘and her hair is heavy as burnished gold. I could paint her – not on canvas – for I should need shades and tones and hues and dyes more splendid than the iris of a splendid rainbow. I could only paint her with closed eyes, for in dreams alone can such colours as I need be found. For her eyes, I must have azure from skies untroubled by a cloud – the skies of dreamland. For her lips, roses from the palaces of slumberland, and for her brow, snow-drifts from mountains which tower in fantastic pinnacles to the moons – oh, much higher than our moon here”
― The King in Yellow
― The King in Yellow
“This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with its beautiful stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth--a world which now trembles before the King In Yellow.”
― The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
― The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
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