"Children of Dune" Quotes
"Children of Dune" follows the tumultuous journey of Paul Atreides' twin children, Leto II and Ghanima, as they navigate political intrigue and destiny on the desert planet of Arrakis.
science fiction | 408 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
The past is no farther away than your last breath.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern.
The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of time.
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble.
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
The present is a narrow, moving line that erases the past and covers the future.
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines.
