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“Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.”

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Frank Herbert книга God Emperor of Dune

Источник: God Emperor of Dune

“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune

Источник: Dune

“For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune

Источник: Dune

“Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune

Источник: Dune

“I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune

Источник: Dune

“To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.”

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“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune Messiah

Источник: Dune Messiah

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune

Источник: Dune

“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”

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Frank Herbert книга God Emperor of Dune

Источник: God Emperor of Dune

“Police are inevitably corrupted…. Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.”

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Frank Herbert книга God Emperor of Dune

Источник: God Emperor of Dune

“Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune

Источник: Dune

“If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.”

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Frank Herbert книга Дети Дюны

Источник: Children of Dune

“You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.”

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Frank Herbert книга Дети Дюны

Источник: Children of Dune

“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune

Источник: Dune

“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune

Источник: Dune

“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune

Источник: Dune

“We have eternity, beloved."
"You may have eternity. I have only now."
"But this is eternity.”

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Frank Herbert книга Dune Messiah

Источник: Dune Messiah