
“The curious thing about war—about so many things—was the number of critically important things that no one could know.”
― The Spider's War
― The Spider's War

“Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune

“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

“Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities,”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune

“Orr was not a fast reasoner. In fact, he was not a reasoner. He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
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