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

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.”

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.

Thufir Hawat, his father’s Master of Assassins,

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

she had succumbed to that profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.

ducal heir.

‘That which submits rules.’ “

And what he saw was a time nexus within this cave, a boiling of possibilities focused here, wherein the most minute action—the wink of an eye, a careless word, a misplaced grain of sand—moved a gigantic lever across the known universe. He saw violence with the outcome subject to so many variables that his slightest movement created vast shiftings i

“Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body.