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    Lois Lowry
    “The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
    ― Lois Lowry, The Giver
    tags: dystopia, future, life, sci-fi, the-giver, utopia
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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
    “It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: fear, self-knowledge
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    Frank Herbert
    “Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: religion, science
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    Frank Herbert
    “God created Arrakis to train the faithful.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Each man is a little war.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “What is the son but an extension of the father?”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: father-and-son
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    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    Frank Herbert
    “The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
    tags: death, dune, life
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    Frank Herbert
    “I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: chani, dune, love, paul, sihaya, storm
    72 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “We have eternity, beloved."
    "You may have eternity. I have only now."
    "But this is eternity.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
    tags: love, present-moment
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    Frank Herbert
    “One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It’s a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can’t evade it. I heard my father when he spoke of my mother. She’s not the betrayer, Gurney.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Claire North
    “Cassandra did not resist. After the first year of being pulled by the hair into Agamemnon's bed, hand at her throat, tongue wet, she had learned that screaming changed nothing. By the time Clytemnestra killed her, seven years later, Cassandra had given up on speech altogether, knowing no one would believe her, and no one would care. Thus died the prophetess of Troy, plaything of gods and men.”
    ― Claire North, Ithaca
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    Costanza Casati
    “She gazes at Agamemnon and says, “I do not forget.”
    ― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
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    Céline Sciamma
    “Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.”
    ― Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    tags: eurydice, love, muse, mythology, orpheus, orpheus-and-eurydice, poet, portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: renewal, summer
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “Summer night--
    even the stars
    are whispering to each other.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa
    tags: poetry
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect
    tags: kurt-vonnegut, reading, writing
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    Virgil
    “Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
    ― Virgil
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    Leopold II
    “Il suffit d’oser pour réussir”
    ― Leopold II
    tags: belge, belgique, colonialisme-belge, empire-colonial-belge, impérialisme-belge, leopold-ii, nationalisme-belge
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  • #26
    “Oser ouvrir la porte des possibilités, c'est sortir des peurs et des pensées limitantes.”
    ― Isabelle Wats
    tags: happiness, inspirational, life
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    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
    16018 likes

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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Paulo Coelho
    “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: fear, suffering
    4654 likes



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