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“This was death hanging on an infinite number of minuscule mischances.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Some lives are all too brief, while others are a continual struggle. I couldn’t help thinking that it was a brutal assessment of people’s lives to employ usefulness to society as a yardstick by which to measure their value.”
― Sweet Bean Paste
― Sweet Bean Paste
“Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything. He wishes he could hate someone for the death of his son. But who can he blame for a sudden death? He tried to hate God, but he doesn’t believe in God. He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral, but he couldn’t keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“I told him that to endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“There’d been such a sense of familiarity about that kiss. His lips had been flesh of a future she’d seen in some prescient byway. Breast heaving, she said: “I should have you flayed.” “Because I’m dangerous?” “Because you presume too much!” “I presume nothing. I take nothing which is not first offered to me. Be glad I did not take all that was offered.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
Sid’s 2025 Year in Books
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188 books
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90 friends
331 books
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197 books
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77 books
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