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Frank Herbert
“In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are somtimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.”
Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

Clark Ashton Smith
“Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;
I crown me with the million-colored sun
Of secret worlds incredible, and take
Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar,
Throned on the mounting zenith, and illume
The spaceward-flown horizons infinite.”
Clark Ashton Smith, The Last Oblivion: Best Fantastic Poems of Clark Ashton Smith

Franz Kafka
“You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair.”
Franz Kafka, The Trial

Agatha Christie
“It’s not a man’s working hours that are important – it’s his leisure hours.”
Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

Frank Herbert
“The prescience, he realized, was an illumination that incorporated the limits of what it revealed- at once a source of accuracy and meaningful error. A kind of Heisenberg indeterminacy intervened: the expenditure of energy that revealed what he saw, changed what he saw.

And what he saw was a time nexus within this cave, a boiling of possibilities focused here, wherein the most minute action - the wink of an eye, a careless word, a misplaced grain of sand - moved a gigantic lever across the known universe. He saw violence with the outcome subject to so many variables that his slightest movement created vast shiftings in the patterns.

The vision made him want to freeze into immobility, but this, too was action with its consequences.”
Frank Herbert, Dune

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