Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection (Dune #1-6)

by Frank Herbert

“If wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets,”

anachronism

Even as she spoke, Jessica laughed inwardly at the pride behind her words. What was it St. Augustine said? she asked herself. “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.” Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I could use a quiet retreat by myself.

And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad’Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

ornithopter

mnemonic

bravura,”

riposte

Kynes looked at Jessica, said: “The newcomer to Arrakis frequently underestimates the importance of water here. You are dealing, you see, with the Law of the Minimum.” She heard the testing quality in his voice, said, “Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. And, naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate.” “It’s rare to find members of a Great House aware of planetological problems,” Kynes said. “Water is the least favorable condition for life on Arrakis. And remember that growth itself can produce unfavorable conditions unless treated with extreme care.”

This is more than a second-approximation answer; it’s the straight-line computation. Depend on it.”

implacable

“If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.” It was a Bene Gesserit axiom. He took it to himself now, promising never again to fall into that trap…if he lived through this.

“To tell me a thing is certain when it is not? Do you think I’ll praise you for such stupidity, give you another promotion?”

pathos

“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”

we must find the currents and patterns in these strange waters…if we’re to survive.

“The unknown brings its own worries,”

adroitness

“The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever,”

ennui.”

diffidence.

perfidy

caprice

Augury!

“Hunting for sand in the desert,”

interstices.

gestalten

saturnine

“What’s law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don’t look too closely at the law. Do, and you’ll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You’ll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.”

the universe was a place of constant conversation between animal populations.

circumlocutions

gestalten

coterie,

adroitly.

gestalten

“To stay awake all night adds a day to your life,” Stilgar said,

aphorisms!”

edification

diffidently

parsimony

atavistic

Short-term decisions tend to fail in the long-term.”

suborn

sybaritic

peregrination

“A tyrant—not fully human, not insane, merely a tyrant. But even ordinary tyrants have motives and feelings beyond those usually assigned them by facile historians, and they will think of me as a great tyrant. Thus, my feelings and motives are a legacy I would preserve lest history distort them too much. History has a way of magnifying some characteristics while it discards others.

exigencies,”

Museum Fremen! Leto thought. They were such narrow thinkers with near horizons.

“Then, Lord, will you tell us about the physical changes in your person?” “Someone besides yourself should know about and record such things,” Luyseyal said. “In case something dreadful should happen to me?” Leto asked. “Lord!” Anteac protested. “We do not . . .” “You dissect me with words when you would prefer sharper instruments,” Leto said. “Hypocrisy offends me.” “We protest, Lord,” Anteac said. “Indeed you do. I hear you.”

portentous