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“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
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― As You Like It
― As You Like It
“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
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Mir’s 2025 Year in Books
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