“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That's a triumph.”
― Farewell Summer
― Farewell Summer
“I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?”
― Dune
― Dune
“The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.”
― Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
― Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
“A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.”
― Dune
― Dune
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