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Nick is Currently Reading

Nick is currently reading

Alien Clay

by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, genre-sci-fi

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Feb 23, 2026 09:54AM

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The Lovecraft Compendium

by H.P. Lovecraft

bookshelves: currently-reading, cults, genre-horror, classics, reading-challenge-2026, weird-slash-cosmic-horror

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Jan 27, 2026 10:03AM

Nick’s Quotes

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

8724 likes

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: violence

1834 likes

“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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“Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

tags: politics, religion, strategy, wisdom

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“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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