dune quotes

quotes from Frank Herbert's Dune Series, the science fiction masterpiece

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...Symbols endure when their meaning is lost... there is no summa of all attainable knowledge.

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I just got to the part in #Dune where Paul thinks his mother is his enemy. #why #andnowtheresanother #benegisserit @dunequotes

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Knowing where the trap is - that's the first step in evading it.

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I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day."

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What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions....

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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have...

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Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt.

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Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

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I never thought it would be easy to serve God. I just didn't think it would be this hard.

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All contemporaries do not inhabit the same time. The past is always changing, but few realize it.

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You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

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You cannot back into the future.

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The Fremen were supreme in that... self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

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The vision made him want to freeze into immobility, but this, too, was action with its consequences.

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The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.

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How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

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Is it defeatist or treacherous for a doctor to diagnose a disease correctly? My only intention is to cure the disease.

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What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

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If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

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Life — all life — is in the service of life