

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune

“For you, a thousand times over”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner

“All that we have is that shout into the wind--how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.
--Karnus Au Bellona”
― Morning Star
--Karnus Au Bellona”
― Morning Star

“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
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