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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “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.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
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    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: paradox
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    Frank Herbert
    “Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

    -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
    tags: government, nations, politics
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    Frank Herbert
    “He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: commodity, economics, science-fiction, spice, supply-chain
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    Frank Herbert
    “You do not beg the sun for mercy.

    -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
    tags: beg, mercy, sun
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    Franz Kafka
    “Paths are made by walking”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books
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    Franz Kafka
    “You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka, letters, love
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    Franz Kafka
    “There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
    ― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
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    Franz Kafka
    “You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: humour, philosophical, satire
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
    tags: life, story
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “When reason fails, the devil helps!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: crime, punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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