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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
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    C.D. Muller
    “Time is an illusion. It’s nothing more than an idea that events always occur in a linear direction. It moves forward, never back. Now, I believe that the time has come.”
    ― C.D. Muller
    tags: fantasy-young-adult, inspirational, life-lessons, philosophy, time-quotes
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    H.G. Wells
    “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
    tags: first-lines, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    H.G. Wells
    “We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians . . . were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space if fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?”
    ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
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    H.G. Wells
    “Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
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    H.G. Wells
    “By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
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    H.G. Wells
    “Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
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    H.G. Wells
    “For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
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    H.G. Wells
    “Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity,”
    ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
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    H.G. Wells
    “This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”
    ― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
    tags: war
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    H.G. Wells
    “The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.”
    ― HG Wells, The War of the Worlds
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    H.G. Wells
    “Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
    ― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
    tags: fear
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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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
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan
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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: death, legacy, life, muad-dib, philosophy, truth, wisdom
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    Frank Herbert
    “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: politics, religion, science-fiction
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    Frank Herbert
    “It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: thoughtful
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Hope clouds observation.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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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
    “Fear is the mind-killer.”
    ― Frank Herbert , Dune
    tags: 1965, fear, litany, panic, serenity
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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
    “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
    “What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: battle-training, fighting, gurney-halleck, practice, preparation, training, warrior-training
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    Tui T. Sutherland
    “I really think I'd be better at, like, advanced napping techniques.”
    ― Tui T. Sutherland, The Hidden Kingdom
    tags: dragons, funny, sleep
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    Tui T. Sutherland
    “I volunteer,” Clay said. “I’m a world champion at sitting on my friends.”
    ― Tui T. Sutherland, The Hidden Kingdom
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    Tui T. Sutherland
    “There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest."
    "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?”
    ― Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir
    tags: dragons, glory, starflight, tree
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “She swallowed, looking at the ground that was not earth, but the very base of Self, of the world. She whispered, “I’m scared.”

    Danika grabbed her hand again. “That’s the point of it, Bryce. Of life. To live, to love, knowing that it might all vanish tomorrow. It makes everything that much more precious.” She took Bryce’s face in her hands and pressed their brows together.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood
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