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  • #1
    Paul Theroux
    “You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.”
    Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Frank Herbert
    “Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #5
    Frank Herbert
    “He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #6
    Frank Herbert
    “Fear is the mind-killer.”
    Frank Herbert , Dune

  • #7
    Frank Herbert
    “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #8
    Frank Herbert
    “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #9
    Frank Herbert
    “The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #10
    Diane Arbus
    “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
    Diane Arbus

  • #11
    Walt Whitman
    “I accept Time absolutely.
    It alone is without flaw,
    It alone rounds and completes all,
    That mystic baffling wonder.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #12
    C.G. Jung
    “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #13
    George Orwell
    “We walk about under a load of memories which we long to share and
    somehow never can.”
    George Orwell, Burmese Days

  • #14
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

  • #15
    Cormac McCarthy
    “His subtle obsession with uniqueness troubled all his dreams.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Suttree



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