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“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“The terrain enforced its own rhythms.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Too Much Knowledge never makes for Simple Decisions.”
― Frank Herbert

“The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“My mind controls my reality.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it!”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.”
― Frank Herbert

“My lungs taste the air of Time,
Blown past falling sands…”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create.”
― Frank Herbert

“His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays