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Conan: The Collected Adventures of the World's Fiercest Barbarian (Illustrated) QUOTES

Conan: The Collected Adventures of the World's Fiercest Barbarian (Illustrated) QUOTES

1 " It was a convulsion of obscenity, a spasm of lasciviousness – an exudation of secret hungers framed by compulsion: desire without pleasure, pain mated awfully to lust. It was like watching a soul stripped naked, and all its dark and unmentionable secrets laid bare. "

― Robert E. Howard , Conan: The Collected Adventures of the World's Fiercest Barbarian (Illustrated)

2 " He held out his hand as if to receive something, and the Turanian cried out sharply like a man in mortal agony. He reeled drunkenly, and then, with a splintering of bones, a rending of flesh and muscle and a snapping of mail-links, his breast burst outward with a shower of blood, and through the ghastly aperture something red and dripping shot through the air into the Master's outstretched hand, as a bit of steel leaps to the magnet. "

― Robert E. Howard , Conan: The Collected Adventures of the World's Fiercest Barbarian (Illustrated)

3 " Naive as a child in many ways, unfamiliar with the sophistry of civilization, he was naturally intelligent, jealous of his rights, and dangerous as a hungry tiger. "

― Robert E. Howard , Conan: The Collected Adventures of the World's Fiercest Barbarian (Illustrated)