Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film (The Dune Sequence Book 1)

Teach us this weirding way and you have sanctuary with us as long as you wish. Your water shall mingle with our water.”

the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

“My toast is one of those maxims so dear to our hearts: ‘Business makes progress! Fortune passes everywhere!’ ”

“The more life there is within a system, the more niches there are for life,”

thought of him more as a friend than as a hired sword.

“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 me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

His own safety requires the Voice. He already has a good start in it, but we both know how much more he needs… and that desperately.”

“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die,” the Fremen said.

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