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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
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan
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    Frank Herbert
    “Hope clouds observation.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: death, legacy, life, muad-dib, philosophy, truth, wisdom
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    Frank Herbert
    “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: duke-leto-atreides
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: fear, self-knowledge
    351 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Fear is the mind-killer.”
    ― Frank Herbert , Dune
    tags: 1965, fear, litany, panic, serenity
    388 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, proverb
    385 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: research, science
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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
    “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
    2136 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: politics
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    Frank Herbert
    “Truth suffers from too much analysis.

    -Ancient Fremen Saying”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
    tags: introspection
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit
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    Douglas Adams
    “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humor, philosophy, science-fiction
    4047 likes

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    Dan Simmons
    “Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
    ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
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    Dan Simmons
    “In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
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    Dan Simmons
    “Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”
    ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
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    Dan Simmons
    “Mobs have passions, not brains.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
    tags: intelligence, mobs, passion
    53 likes

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    Dan Simmons
    “Its hard to die. Harder to live”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
    tags: dying, living
    49 likes

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    Dan Simmons
    “We are all eaters of souls.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Terror
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    tags: hunger
    1371 likes

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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: cruelty, impact
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    tags: august-1914, ignorance, prejudice, tolerance
    1138 likes

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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward
    tags: attitude, contentment
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
    ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе
    tags: limits-of-power, nothing-left-to-lose, tyranny
    516 likes



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