Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. P...
Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger.
Stilgar put a hand on Idaho’s shoulder. All men are interlopers, old friend.
The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative:
The omnipresent enemy was the —that total absence of the things to support life that emptiness called space. It was evil and they feared it—constantly. A rod and staff might comfort in the presence of...
The past is no farther away than your pillow.
The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. I already know the important things!we sa...
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
There are many kinds of ignorance, Streggi. The basest is to follow your own desires without examining them. Sometimes, we do it unconsciously. Hone your sensitivity. Be aware of what you do unconscio...
We came from Caladan—a paradise world for our form of life. There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind—we could see the actuality all around us. And the pr...
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
What a dolt my father sends me for weaponry, Paul intoned. This doltish Gurney Halleck has forgotten the first lesson for a fighting man armed and shielded. Paul snapped the force button at his waist,...
What have we here—jinn or human?
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of...
You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the l...
It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's 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...
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