Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.


Frank Herbert

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She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
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I observed you in pain, lad. Pain’s merely the axis of the test. Your mother’s told you about ou...
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Where is Alia?' she asked.
'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,...
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you can’t buy security
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You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.
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My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the stren...
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A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the lev...
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Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on...
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Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.
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The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric....
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the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.
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Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning “That path leads ever down into s...
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