“Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said.
"And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death.”
― God Emperor of Dune
"And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death.”
― God Emperor of Dune
“It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“Only fools prefer the past!”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“When I set out to lead humanity along my Golden Path I promised a lesson their bones would remember. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.”
― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
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