“I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“Growing older is to grow more wicked.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
Matthew McGowan’s 2025 Year in Books
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