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“He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.”
― Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die

“Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift,giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from.”
― Royal Cromwell

“I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova