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The other women also kneeled down and echoed her words, as if, in the face of horror, ancient rituals regained their meaning.
“I told him that to endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“This is the climax, Paul thought. From here, the future will open, the clouds part onto a kind of glory. And if I die here, they’ll say I sacrificed myself that my spirit might lead them. And if I live, they’ll say nothing can oppose Muad’Dib.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Both of you were taught to govern,” he said. “You were conditioned to an overweening thirst for power. You were imbued with a shrewd grasp of politics and a deep understanding for the uses of war and ritual. Natural law? What natural law? That myth haunts human history. Haunts! It’s a ghost. It’s insubstantial, unreal. Is your Jihad a natural law?”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“My point is if you don’t learn how to keep walking past the fallen, then you will be driven crazy, and the movement will leave you behind, too.”
― My Government Means to Kill Me
― My Government Means to Kill Me
“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
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