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    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan
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    Frank Herbert
    “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: politics
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    Frank Herbert
    “Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: inspirational, philosophy, truth
    278 likes

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    Koushun Takami
    “By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.”
    ― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale
    tags: dead, mentally, physically
    199 likes

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    Lev Grossman
    “I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”
    ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians
    tags: desire, love, relationships, trouble
    583 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
    2084 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: thoughtful
    737 likes

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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Little solace comes
    to those who grieve
    when thoughts keep drifting
    as walls keep shifting
    and this great blue world of ours
    seems a house of leaves

    moments before the wind.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
    489 likes

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    Exurb1a
    “Hell isn't a fire pit but a museum of regrets.”
    ― Exurb1a, The Fifth Science
    78 likes

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    Exurb1a
    “Humans are the only animals that build zoos for themselves.”
    ― Exurb1a, The Fifth Science
    tags: denial, ego, human-nature, imprisonment, laziness, limitations, self-limiting
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    Exurb1a
    “There is a special problem in communications theory. We call it ‘narrative collapse’. When a planet is very connected, a time inevitably arrives when it becomes difficult to work out what is actually going on. Video and audio can be faked. Testimony isn’t reliable. All truths fall into a relative flatness.”
    ― Exurb1a, The Fifth Science
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    Mary Roach
    “Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true.”
    ― Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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    Mark Lawrence
    “If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns
    tags: the-broken-empire
    57 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: heart, lover, madman, minstrel
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    Neil Gaiman
    “It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: fallibility, humor
    2429 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: love, misery
    678 likes

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    Neil Gaiman
    “He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
    tags: stardust
    622 likes

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    Confucius
    “Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”
    ― Confucius, The Analects
    tags: clumsiness, grace, inspirational
    178 likes

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    Confucius
    “Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.”
    ― Confucius, The Analects
    tags: inspirational
    49 likes

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    Sayaka Murata
    “What I'm really scared of is believing the words society makes me speak are my own.”
    ― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
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    Albert Camus
    “I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
    ― Albert Camus, L'Étranger
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    Mark Lawrence
    “Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
    ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
    tags: memories, past
    706 likes

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    Daniel Keyes
    “I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: death, fear, life
    948 likes

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    Confucius
    “If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”
    ― Confucius, Analects of Confucius (Chinese Sages)
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    Confucius
    “To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.”
    ― Confucius, The Analects of Confucius
    34 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge
    2189 likes

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    Andy Weir
    “I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
    ― Andy Weir, The Martian
    1004 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
    101272 likes

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    Hermann Hesse
    “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: communication, foolishness, knowledge, sharing, teaching, wisdom
    2324 likes

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    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    ― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: books, reading
    2134 likes



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