dune
⌗ Metadata
- Author: Frank Herbert
- Tags: #scifi #fiction
📖 Short Summary (1 takeaway)
- In a new world where Paul has to learn the ways and adapt to the customs and traditions but fighting for a personal goal is not dissimilar to the situation when a young person starts to fight for their place in society.
🧐 Why I am reading this book
- One of the 6 classical SF books, as a sci-fi reader it feels like a rite of passage
🙊 Great quotes
May you return without harm, and may your travels never be entirely safe
If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets
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 return the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Hope clouds observation
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
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