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“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'
- from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan”
― Dune
- from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan”
― Dune
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
― Dune
― Dune
“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
― 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
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