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    Franz Kafka
    “Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: paradox
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
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    Frank Herbert
    “Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
    - Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
    ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
    tags: government, philosophy
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    Frank Herbert
    “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, proverb
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    Frank Herbert
    “Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'

    - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: arrakis, attitude, complete, dune, knife
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    Frank Herbert
    “This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: wealth
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    Frank Herbert
    “Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: caution, mediocrity, passion, risk
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    Frank Herbert
    “The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?"
    Muad'Dib”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: history, truth
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    Frank Herbert
    “In the wrong hands,” Leto said, “monolithic centralized power is a dangerous and volatile instrument.” - “And your hands are the right ones?”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: power
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    Frank Herbert
    “Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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    George R.R. Martin
    “I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: jaime-lannister, love, romance
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: clever, fools
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    George R.R. Martin
    “When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: chess-pieces, knowing-your-opponent, manipulation, pawns
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    George R.R. Martin
    “It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: a-storm-of-swords, asoiaf, fantasy, grrm
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    George R.R. Martin
    “All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    George R.R. Martin
    “You were made to be kissed, often and well.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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    George R.R. Martin
    “And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: kingmanship
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    Marcus Porcius Cato
    “After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
    ― Cato
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    Marcus Porcius Cato
    “He who hesitates is lost.”
    ― Cato
    tags: philosophy-of-life
    40 likes



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