“Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.”
― 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
“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
“When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.”
― Dune
― Dune
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