“There’s a Bene Gesserit saying,” she said. “You have sayings for everything!” he protested. “You’ll like this one,” she said. “It goes: ‘Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.”
― Dune
― Dune
“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us.”
― Dune
― Dune
“What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?”
― Dune
― Dune
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