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"I'm afraid of my son; I fear his strangeness; I fear what he may see ahead of us, what he may tell me"
- Lady Jessica, Dune
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“May thy knife chip and shatter”
And may thy tits get even flatter
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"My mother's sick with longing for a planet she may never see," Paul said. "Where water falls from the sky and plants grow so thickly you cannot walk between them."
"Water from the sky," Stilgar whispered.
In that instant, Paul saw how Stilgar had been transformed from the Fremen naib to a creature of the Lisan al-Gaib, a receptable for awe and obedience. It was a lessening of the man, and Paul felt the ghost-wind of the jihad in it.
I have seen a friend become a worshiper, he thought.
Frank Herbert - Dune
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There was a man so wise,
He jumped into
A sandy place
And burnt out both his eyes!
And when he knew his eyes were gone,
He offered no complaint.
He summoned up a vision
And made himself a saint.
-Children's Verse
from History of Muad'dib
(From Dune Messiah)
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“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
- Frank Herbert.
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It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.
- Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune
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Now she saw only the circle of stars. They were like the luminous tips of weapons aimed down at her. A shower of meteors crossed her patch of night. The meteors seems to her like a warning, like tiger stripes, like luminous grave slats clabbering her blood. And she felt the chill of the price on their heads.
- Dune, by Frank Herbert
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You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? That is an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
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- Put your right hand in the box. [...] The test is simple : remove your hand from the box, and you die.
- What's in the box ?
- Pain.
(👆It's so prettyyyy ✨)
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I don't know the original creator of this. found it on google images while looking for dune-related tattoo inspo
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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.
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“She stills all storms-
Her eyes kill our enemies,
And torment the unbelievers.
From the spires of Tuono
Where dawnlight strikes
And clear water runs,
You see her shadow.
In the shining summer heat
She serves us bread and milk-
Cool, fragrant with spices.
Her eyes melt our enemies,
Torment our oppressors
And pierce all mysteries.
She is Alia. . . Alia. . . Alia. . .”
Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
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Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
-A Guide to Trial and Error in Government,
Bene Gesserit Archives
(From Heretics of Dune)
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Paul Atreides : There's something happening to me. Something waking up in my mind. I can't control it.
Gaius Helen Mohiam : What did you see?
Paul Atreides : There's a crusade coming.
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