The chapel was the only building in Estartyol that was made from stone, and its walls were old when it had housed a pagan temple. Charlemagne had brought Christianity with him when he had scaled the Pyrenees during his efforts to conquer
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden
“Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.”
― Dune
― Dune
“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib”
― Dune
― Dune
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“I have detected disturbances in the wash.'
'The wash?'
'The space-time wash.'
'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?'
'Eddies in the space-time continuum.'
'Ah...is he. Is he.'
'What?'
'Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?”
― Life, the Universe and Everything
'The wash?'
'The space-time wash.'
'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?'
'Eddies in the space-time continuum.'
'Ah...is he. Is he.'
'What?'
'Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?”
― Life, the Universe and Everything
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