Marz C

“How much must we suffer, how long must we strive, before our quests become tragic comedies? I can offer only a morsel of cold comfort: that I, at least, have forgotten the trick of hating you. I understand you, I think."
He shifted uncomfortably. "I should also mention that I've lost your penis.”
― Gabriel Squailia

“Why can't you free him?'
'Because he thinks my memories are his key to freedom. He thinks I am building our future out of our past.'
'Isn't that always the way of it, Leto?'
'No, dear Hwi.'
'Then how is it?'
'Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“What am I eliminating? The bourgeois infatuation with peaceful conservation of the past. This is a binding force, a thing which holds humankind into one vulnerable unit in spite of illusionary separations across parsecs of space. If I can find the scattered bits, others can find them. When you are together, you can share a common catastrophe. You can be exterminated together. Thus, I demonstrate the terrible danger of a gliding, passionless mediocrity, a movement without ambitions or aims. I show you that entire civilizations can do this thing. I give you eons of life which slips gently toward death without fuss or stirring, without even asking 'Why?' I show you the false happiness and the shadow-catastrophe called Leto, the God Emperor. Now, will you learn the real happiness?”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“What are you saying? Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.'
Moneo opened his mouth but closed it without speaking.
'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves. Moneo! Uncover yourself!”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune