“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.”
― Dune
― Dune
“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”
― Horns
― Horns
“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.”
― Dune
― Dune
“What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?”
― Dune
― Dune
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