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“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle. But it will never break.” —Ancient Chinese Proverb”
― Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching

“Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.”
― Lao Tzu

“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

“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Fragmentation is the natural destiny of all power.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“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

“Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“We have eternity, beloved."
"You may have eternity. I have only now."
"But this is eternity.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“You do not beg the sun for mercy.

-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

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

“I told him that to endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Growing older is to grow more wicked.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“You do not take from this universe, he thought. It grants what it will.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity’s whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“One moment of incompetence can be fatal.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“There are some things no one can bear. I meddled in all the possible futures I could create until, finally, they created me.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah