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My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

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

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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

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There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.

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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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What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.

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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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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

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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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Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. 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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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

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I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.

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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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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

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

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The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.

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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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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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If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

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