“One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud.
You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.”
― A Dance with Dragons
You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.”
― A Dance with Dragons
“In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are somtimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
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