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Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles.
Victim of your folly.

— Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”

“Wild beasts of the desert do hunt there,
Waiting for the innocents to pass.
Oh-h-h, tempt not the gods of the desert,
Lest you seek a lonely epitaph.”

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.”

“The too-dark sky hung over the slope like a blot, and the milky light of the Arrakeen sun gave the scene a silver cast—light like the crysknife concealed in her bodice.”