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“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“One can fall in love and still hate.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“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

“Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.”
― Chuck Crisafulli, Go to Hell: A Heated History of the Underworld

“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune