“There’s a Bene Gesserit saying,” she said. “You have sayings for everything!” he protested. “You’ll like this one,” she said. “It goes: ‘Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.”
― 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
“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.”
― Dune
― Dune
“What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?”
― Dune
― Dune
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