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Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
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Kōbō Abe (The Woman in the Dunes)
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One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
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Frank Herbert (Children of Dune (Dune #3))
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I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia. I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder. I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies
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Anthony Bourdain (A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines)
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People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.
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Stephen Fry (The Book of General Ignorance)
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Books lay on the floor in literary dunes.
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Chris Columbus (House of Secrets (House of Secrets, #1))
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But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
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Frank Herbert (Children of Dune (Dune #3))
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(...), j'étais animée d'une faim nouvelle, et certains jours, j'étais véritablement vorace. Le besoin de lire s'emparait de moi et exerçait sa délicieuse et grisante emprise. Plus je lisais, plus j'avais faim. Chaque ouvrage était riche de promesses, chaque page que je tournais était une équipée, l'attrait d'un autre monde.
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Tatiana de Rosnay (The House I Loved)
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A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.
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Étienne Davodeau (Les Ignorants : Récit d'une initiation croisée)
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Adaptability is the essence of survival. —from the Azhar Book
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Brian Herbert (Sisterhood of Dune (Schools of Dune, #1))
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Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan Hearse; A Deadly Shade of Gold; Conjure Wife; Rosemary's Baby; Silverlock; King Conan. He'd packed books not to entertain, nor even to illustrate philosophies of life, but to rebuild civilization.
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Larry Niven (Lucifer's Hammer)
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I think with sadness of all the books I’ve read, all the places I’ve seen, all the knowledge I’ve amassed and that will be no more. All the music, all the paintings, all the culture, so many places: and suddenly nothing. They made no honey, those things, they can provide no one with any nourishment. At the most, if my books are still read, the reader will think: There wasn’t much she didn’t see! But that unique sum of things, the experience that I lived, with all its order and its randomness — the Opera of Peking, the arena of Huelva, the candomblé in Bahía, the dunes of El-Oued, Wabansia Avenue, the dawns in Provence, Tiryns, Castro talking to five hundred thousand Cubans, a sulphur sky over a sea of clouds, the purple holly, the white nights of Leningrad, the bells of the Liberation, an orange moon over the Piraeus, a red sun rising over the desert, Torcello, Rome, all the things I’ve talked about, others I have left unspoken — there is no place where it will all live again
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Simone de Beauvoir
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I think with sadness of all the books I’ve read, all the places I’ve seen, all the knowledge I’ve amassed and that will be no more. All the music, all the paintings, all the culture, so many places: and suddenly nothing. They made no honey, those things, they can provide no one with any nourishment. At the most, if my books are still read, the reader will think: There wasn’t much she didn’t see! But that unique sum of things, the experience that I lived, with all its order and its randomness — the Opera of Peking, the arena of Huelva, the candomblé in Bahía, the dunes of El-Oued, Wabansia Avenue, the dawns in Provence, Tiryns, Castro talking to five hundred thousand Cubans, a sulphur sky over a sea of clouds, the purple holly, the white nights of Leningrad, the bells of the Liberation, an orange moon over the Piraeus, a red sun rising over the desert, Torcello, Rome, all the things I’ve talked about, others I have left unspoken — there is no place where it will all live again. At
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Sarah Bakewell (At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others)
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As Mickey looked on in shock, Emily used the opportunity to turn her anger on him. Pulling the tape from her mouth, she roared like Diana and kicked out at him with a surprise blow to his stomach that knocked him down to his knees. Emily tried to remember everything Diana had taught her, and tested out her fighting moves. Before Mickey could land one punch on Emily, Paelen appeared and gave him a bone-crunching blow to the chin. ‘That is for Joel!’ The hit was hard enough to lift Mickey off the ground and send him flying several metres in the air before crashing down on a sand dune.
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Kate O'Hearn (Pegasus and the Rise of the Titans: Book 5)
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I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence imposed upon you by your life, and by life with my father.
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Édouard Louis (Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme)
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Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert’s first sequel to Dune, was published in 1969. In that book, he flipped over what he called the “myth of the hero” and showed the dark side of Paul Atreides. Some readers didn’t understand it. Why would the author do that to his great hero? In interviews, Dad spent years afterward explaining why, and his reasons were sound. He believed that charismatic leaders could be dangerous because they could lead their followers off the edge of a cliff.
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Frank Herbert (Children of Dune (Dune, #3))
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Qu'une goutee de vin tombe dans un verre d'eau; quelle que soit la loi du movement interne du liquide, nous verrons bientôt se colorer d'une teinte rose uniforme et à partir de ce moment on aura beau agiter le vase, le vin et l'eau ne partaîtront plus pouvoir se séparer. Tout cela, Maxwell et Boltzmann l'ont expliqué, mais celui qui l'a vu plus nettement, dans un livre trop peu lu parce qu'il est difficile à lire, c'est Gibbs dans ses principes de la Mécanique Statistique.
Let a drop of wine fall into a glass of water; whatever be the law that governs the internal movement of the liquid, we will soon see it tint itself uniformly pink and from that moment on, however we may agitate the vessel, it appears that the wine and water can separate no more. All this, Maxwell and Boltzmann have explained, but the one who saw it in the cleanest way, in a book that is too little read because it is difficult to read, is Gibbs, in his Principles of Statistical Mechanics.
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Henri Poincaré (The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare (Modern Library Science))
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The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument. But the intellect cannot react thus without involving the entire organism. Such an organism may be recognized by its burning, driving behavior. And thus it is with a society treated as organism. But here we encounter an old inertia. Societies move to the goading of ancient, reactive impulses. They demand permanence. Any attempt to display the universe of impermanence arouses rejection patterns, fear, anger, and despair. Then how do we explain the acceptance of prescience? Simply: the giver of prescient visions, because he speaks of an absolute (permanent) realization, may be greeted with joy by humankind even while predicting the most dire events. —THE BOOK OF LETO AFTER HARQ AL-ADA
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Frank Herbert (Children of Dune (Dune, #3))
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Her mouth contorted, and the wrinkles around her lips were like the dunes of a frosted cupcake. And I just wanted to lick her living word machine (mouth).
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Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
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We left our panzer dead in their vehicles, burning like Vikings, and we withdrew from that evil place with its dunes and smashed bodies.
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Wolfgang Faust (Tiger Tracks - The Classic Panzer Memoir (Wolfgang Faust's Panzer Books))
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Nothing more romantic than a crime scene, right?
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Cindy Bell (Hobbies and Homicide (Dune House Cozy Mystery Series Book 25))
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Truth belongs to those who control that perspective.
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Brian Herbert (Dune: The Duke of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 1))
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Suspicions have a way of becoming “facts,” even if they have no basis in truth.
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Brian Herbert (Dune: The Duke of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 1))
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Si je veux que vous me donniez le pouvoir et que vous me supportiez lors d'une élection, est-ce que je dois vous dire ce que vous voulez entendre ou vous dire ce que vous ne voulez pas entendre ?
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David Icke (The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World)
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Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair, a frizzy upheaval. We will call him Bell Pepper. Bell Pepper sidled up beside The Drippy Man and looked at the grilled cheese in his hand. The Drippy Man, a bit uncomfortable at the heaviness of the gaze, politely apologized and asked Bell Pepper if he would like one.
“Why is one of your legs fatter than the other?” asked Bell Pepper.
The Drippy Man realized Bell Pepper was not looking at his sandwich but towards the inconsistency of his leg sizes.
“You always get your kicks pointing out defects?” retorted The Drippy Man.
“Just curious. Never seen anything like it before.”
“I was raised not to feel shame and hide my legs in baggy pants.”
“So you flaunt your deformity by wearing short shorts?”
“Like you flaunt your pockmarks by not wearing a mask?”
Bell Pepper backed away, kicking wide the screen door, making an exit to a porch over hanging a dune of sand that curved into a jagged upward jab of rock.
“He is quite sensitive,” commented The Dry Advisor.
“Who is he?”
“A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does.
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Jeff Phillips (Turban Tan)
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[...] la foi, l'acte de croire à des mythes, des idéologies ou des légendes surnaturels, est la conséquence de la biologie. [...] Il est dans notre nature de survivre. La foi est une réponse instinctive à des aspects de l'existence que nous ne pouvons expliquer autrement, que ce soit le vide moral que nous percevons dans l'univers, la certitude de la mort, le mystère des origines, le sens de notre propre vie ou son absence de sens. Ce sont des aspects élémentaires et d'une extraordinaire simplicité, mais nos propres limitations nous empêchent de donner des réponses sans équivoque à ces questions et, pour cette raison, nous générons pour nous défendre une réponse émotionnelle. C'est de la pure et simple biologie. [...] Toute interprétation ou observation de la réalité l'est par nécessité. En l’occurrence, le problème réside dans le fait que l'homme est un animal moral abandonné dans un monde amoral, condamné à une existence finie et sans autre signification que de perpétuer le cycle naturel de l'espèce. Il est impossible de survivre dans un état prolongé de réalité, au moins pour un être humain.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2))
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Unable—or maybe unwilling—to make a choice, I run my hands back over the books on my shelf. Foundation, Friday, Neuromancer, Misery, Odd Thomas, Dune, all of Tolkien’s works. I know that none of them are appropriate. I need Dr. Seuss, but the closest thing I have is J.K. Rowling.
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Andrea Ring (Nervous System (The System, #1))
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I have never been attracted to a person’s pretentious demeanor. A gaudy surface often obscures a hidden agenda. Rather, I trust the quiet, unassuming person much more than one who constantly needs to remind others of his accomplishments and embellish them. —EMPEROR RODERICK CORRINO
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Brian Herbert (Navigators of Dune (Schools of Dune #3))
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Si l'on considère la petitesse dévolue à la coupe du bonheur humain, la promptitude avec laquelle elle déborde de larmes, la facilité avec laquelle nous la vidons jusqu'à la lie dans notre soif inapaisable d'infini, qui pourrait bien nous reprocher de faire si grand cas d'une simple tasse de thé ?
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Kakuzō Okakura (The Book of Tea)
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Nearly all human cultures plant gardens, and the garden itself has ancient religious connections. For a long time, I've been interested in pre-Christian European beliefs, and the pagan devotions to sacred groves of trees and sacred springs. My German translator gave me a fascinating book on the archaeology of Old Europe, and in it I discovered ancient artifacts that showed that the Old European cultures once revered snakes, just as we Pueblo Indian people still do. So I decided to take all these elements - orchids, gladiolus, ancient gardens, Victorian gardens, Native American gardens, Old European figures of Snake-bird Goddesses - and write a novel about two young sisters at the turn of the century.
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Leslie Marmon Silko (Gardens in the Dunes)
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How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?” Paul asked. “There’s a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they’d bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn’t it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How can you tell what’s ruthless unless you’ve plumbed the depths of both cruelty and kindness? You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach.
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Frank Herbert (Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3)
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Je pense pour ma part que les livres sont comme les être humains. Parfois, nous les aimons pour des raisons cohérentes, raisonnées et intelligibles. Ils sont bien écrits, riches et attrayants comme des éphèbes bien nés. Mais de temps à autre, notre inclinaison vers tel ou tel ouvrage relève plus du pulsionnel, de la passion et de l'irrationnel. Exactement de la même façon dont on s'éprend d'une personne improbable qui ne correspond en rien à nos attentes.
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Eli Esseriam (Cavalier blanc : Alice (Apocalypsis, #1))
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• Frank Herbert is a philosopher. • He’s a philosopher, not just in the way that everyone can have a “philosophy” of something or other, but an honest-togoodness philosopher, and he uses novels to construct and communicate his philosophy. • Herbert’s Dune saga is a work of philosophy that interacts primarily with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the way in which Nietzsche’s ideas about humanity could be understood in light of the horrors of the twentith century.
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Jeffery Nicholas (Dune and Philosophy: Weirding Way of the Mentat (Popular Culture and Philosophy Book 56))
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The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers who tell of the terrible desert life, the stillness, harshness, and death. I lay against the cold sand, tiny grains dancing fast and furious across my skin. I saw insects and scorpions, the line of a snake. Mohammed said the dunes moved millimeters a day. They inched across the desert floor toward the ocean. I smiled. The geographers were blind.
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C. Lynn Murphy (The First Noble Truth)
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Accordons-lui une plus grande capacité à comprendre et à parler le patois jamaïquain, une tolérance accrue pour la flamme vive du rhum blanc, et davantage de respect pour les difficultés qu'on rencontre lorsqu'on veut comprendre quelqu'un d'une autre culture, d'une autre race, d'une autre géographie, d'une autre économie et d'une autre langue - et cela même alors que je me familiarisais tous les jours davantage avec les subtilités de cette culture, de cette race, de cette géographie, de cette économie et de cette langue. J'ai appris le nom des arbres, des fleurs et des aliments qui m'entouraient ; j'ai appris à jouer aux dominos avec autant de férocité qu'un Jamaïquain, et j'ai même appris à parler assez bien avec des Jamaïquaines pour qu'elles puissent oublier pendant de longs moments l'extraordinaire avantage financier que je représentais pour elles, et qu'il leur arrive brièvement d'arrêter de me raconter uniquement ce qu'elles croyaient que je voulais entendre. Ce qui ne veut pas dire que je comprenais alors ce qu'elles me disaient. (p.47)
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Russell Banks (Book of Jamaica)
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« Dans nos écoles on nous enseigne le doute et l’art d’oublier. Avant tout l’oubli de ce qui est personnel et localisé. »
« — Personne ne peut lire deux mille livres. Depuis quatre siècles que je vis je n’ai pas dû en lire plus d’une demi-douzaine. D’ailleurs ce qui importe ce n’est pas de lire mais de relire. L’imprimerie, maintenant abolie, a été l’un des pires fléaux de l’humanité, car elle a tendu à multiplier jusqu’au vertige des textes inutiles.
— De mon temps à moi, hier encore, répondis-je, triomphait la superstition que du jour au lendemain il se passait des événements qu’on aurait eu honte d’ignorer. »
« — À cent ans, l’être humain peut se passer de l’amour et de l’amitié. Les maux et la mort involontaire ne sont plus une menace pour lui. Il pratique un art quelconque, il s’adonne à la philosophie, aux mathématiques ou bien il joue aux échecs en solitaire. Quand il le veut, il se tue. Maître de sa vie, l’homme l’est aussi de sa mort[30].
— Il s’agit d’une citation ? lui demandai-je.
— Certainement. Il ne nous reste plus que des citations. Le langage est un système de citations. »
Extrait de: Borges,J.L. « Le livre de sable. » / Utopie d’un homme qui est fatigué
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Jorge Luis Borges (The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory)
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Pedaling down Dune Drive on a red beach cruiser, Dani ahead of her and Vanessa behind her, is a transporting experience. The night is quiet; the air on her face is soft; her hair streams behind her; the stars above are as brilliant as stars in a children's book. They could be nine years old, or fifteen, or twenty-one; they've ridden bikes down Dune Drive at all of those ages and all of the ones in between. There must have been so much more to those summers, but what she remembers are the two weeks she spent in Avalon with Dani and Vanessa—two weeks that always went by too quickly, but that in memory stretch to fill an entire season.
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Meg Donohue (All the Summer Girls)
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Ten years ago a book appeared in France called D'Une foi l'autre, les conversions a l'Islam en Occident. The authors, both career journalists, carried out extensive interviews with new Muslims in Europe and America. Their conclusions are clear. Almost all educated converts to Islam come in through the door of Islamic spirituality. In the middle ages, the Sufi tariqas were the only effective engine of Islamisation in Muslim minority areas like Central Asia, India, black Africa and Java; and that pattern is maintained today.
Why should this be the case? Well, any new Muslim can tell you the answer. Westerners are in the first instance seeking not a moral path, or a political ideology, or a sense of special identity - these being the three commodities on offer among the established Islamic movements. They lack one thing, and they know it - the spiritual life. Thus, handing the average educated Westerner a book by Sayyid Qutb, for instance, or Mawdudi, is likely to have no effect, and may even provoke a revulsion. But hand him or her a collection of Islamic spiritual poetry, and the reaction will be immediately more positive. It is an extraordinary fact that the best-selling religious poet in modern America is our very own Jalal al-Din Rumi. Despite the immeasurably different time and place of his origin, he outsells every Christian religious poet.
Islam and the New Millennium
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Abdal Hakim Murad
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The guide–book warmly recommends the seashore when the wind is in the east (which it was) as the quickest and firmest route from Göhren to Thiessow; but I chose rather to take the road over the plain because there was a poem in the guide–book about the way along the shore, and the guide–book said it described it extremely well, and I was sure that if that were so I would do better to go the other way. This is the poem — the translation is exact, the original being unrhymed, and the punctuation is the poet’s —
Splashing waves
Rocking boat
Dipping gulls —
Dunes.
Raging winds
Floating froth.
Flashing lightning
Moon!
Fearful hearts
Morning grey —
Stormy nights
Faith!
I read it, marvelled, and went the other way.
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Elizabeth von Arnim (The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (Elizabeth))
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Many forces sought control of the Atreides twins and, when the death of Leto was announced, this movement of plot and counterplot was amplified. Note the relative motivations: the Sisterhood feared Alia, an adult Abomination, but still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides. The Church hierarchy of Auquaf and Hajj saw only the power implicit in control of Muad'Dib's heir. CHOAM wanted a doorway to the wealth of Dune. Farad'n and his Sardaukar sought a return to glory for House Corrino. The Spacing Guild feared the equation Arrakis=melange; without the spice they could not navigate. Jessica wished to repair what her disobedience to the Bene Gesserit had created. Few thought to ask the twins what their plans might be, until it was too late.
-The Book of Kreos
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Frank Herbert (Children of Dune (Dune, #3))
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No end of blessings from heaven and earth. As we climb up out of the Moab valley and reach the high tableland stretching northward, traces of snow flying across the road, the sun emerges clear of the overcast, burning free on the very edge of the horizon. For a few minutes the whole region from the canyon of the Colorado to the Book Cliffs—crag, mesa, turret, dome, canyon wall, plain, swale and dune—glows with a vivid amber light against the darkness on the east. At the same time I see a mountain peak rising clear of the clouds, old Tukuhnikivats fierce as the Matterhorn, snowy as Everest, invincible. “Ferris, stop this car. Let’s go back.” But he only steps harder on the gas. “No,” he says, “you’ve got a train to catch.” He sees me craning my neck to stare backward. “Don’t worry,” he adds, “it’ll all still be here next spring.” The
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Edward Abbey (Desert Solitaire)
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Excellent papier. Rien à voir avec les pâtes mécaniques d'aujourd'hui... Vous savez quelle est la durée de vie moyenne d'un livre imprimé à l'heure actuelle ?... Dis lui, Pablo.
- Soixante-dix ans, répondit l'autre avec rancœur, comme si Corso était le coupable. Soixante-dix misérables années.
Le frère aîné cherchait quelque chose parmi les objets dispersés sur la table. Finalement, il s'empara d'une loupe spéciale à fort grossissement et l'approcha du livre.
- Dans moins d'un siècle, murmura-t-il tandis qu'il soulevait une page pour l'étudier à contre-jour en fermant un œil, presque tout ce qui se trouve aujourd'hui dans les librairies aura disparu. Mais ces volumes imprimés il y a deux cents ou cinq cents ans, demeureront intacts... Nous avons les livres, comme le monde, que nous méritons... N'est-ce pas, Pablo ?
- Des livres de merde pour un monde de merde.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte (The Club Dumas)
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Bien que Terron fût un homme qu'apparemment je ne pouvais appeler autrement qu'un fanatique religieux ; bien qu'il menât sa vie d'une manière qui m'était encore plus étrangère que celle de M. Mann ; et bien que souvent je fusse arrivé à conclure, presque contre ma volonté, qu'il n'était qu'un arnaqueur rusé de campagne en train d'exploiter mon curieux mélange de culpabilité (le raciste américain en moi) et d'amour pour l'ésotérique (l'intellectuel branché en moi), il semblait malgré tout capable de me prévoir, de connaître bien plus précisément que le vieil homme mes besoins, mes questions et mes inquiétudes. De fait, c'était cette capacité d'anticiper sur moi et le bien-être qu'elle me procurait qui me ramenaient sans cesse à croire qu'il était en train de me rouler. En tant que vieux puritain, je me devais de me méfier de tout ce qui m'apportait du bien-être. (p. 201)
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Russell Banks (Book of Jamaica)
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I ASSURE you that I am the book of fate.
Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode! Answers leap up like a frightened flock, blackening the sky of my inescapable memories. Not one answer, not one suffices.
What prisms flash when I enter the terrible field of my past. I am a chip of shattered flint enclosed in a box. The box gyrates and quakes. I am tossed about in a storm of mysteries. And when the box opens, I return to this presence like a stranger in a primitive land.
Slowly (slowly, I say) I relearn my name.
But that is not to know myself!
This person of my name, this Leto who is the second of that calling, finds other voices in his mind, other names and other places. Oh, I promise you (as I have been promised) that I answer to but a single name. If you say, "Leto," I respond. Sufferance makes this true, sufferance and one thing more:
I hold the threads!
All of them are mine. Let me but imagine a topic say... men who have died by the sword-and I have them in all of their gore, every image intact, every moan, every grimace.
Joys of motherhood, I think, and the birthing beds are mine. Serial baby smiles and the sweet cooings of new generations. The first walkings of the toddlers and the first victories of youths brought forth for me to share. They tumble one upon another until I can see little else but sameness and repetition.
"Keep it all intact," I warn myself. Who can deny the value of such experiences, the worth of learning through which I view each new instant? Ahhh, but it's the past. Don't you understand? It's only the past!
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Frank Herbert (God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4))
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Quant à l’oeuvre, les problèmes qu’elle soulève sont plus difficiles encore. En apparence pourtant, quoi de plus simple ? Une somme de textes qui peuvent être dénotés par le signe d’un nom propre. Or cette dénotation (même si on laisse de côté les problèmes de l’attribution) n’est pas une fonction homogène : le nom d’un auteur dénote-t-il de la même façon un texte qu’il a lui-même publié sous son nom, un texte qu’il a présenté sous un pseudonyme, un autre qu’on aura retrouvé après sa mort à l’état d’ébauche, un autre encore qui n’est qu’un griffonnage, un carnet de notes, un « papier » ? La constitution d’une oeuvre complète ou d’un opus suppose un certain nombre de choix qu’il n’est pas facile de justifier ni même de formuler : suffit-il d’ajouter aux textes publiés par l’auteur ceux qu’il projetait de donner à l’impression, et qui ne sont restés inachevés quer par le fait de la mort ? Faut-il intégrer aussi tout ce qui est brouillon, fait de la mort ? Faut-il intégrer aussi tout ce qui est brouillon, premier dessein, corrections et ratures des livres ? Faut-il ajouter les esquisses abandonnées? Et quel status donner aux lettres, aux notes, aux conversations rapportées, aux propos transcrits par les auditeurs, bref à cet immense fourmillement de traces verbales qu’un individu laisse autour de lui au moment de mourir, et qui parlent dans un entrecroisement indéfini tant de langages différents ? En tout cas le nom « Mallarmé » ne se réfère pas de la même façon aux thèmes anglais, aux trauctions d’Edgar Poe, aux poèmes, ou aux réponses à des enquêtes ; de même, ce n’est pas le même rapport qui existe entre le nom de Nietzsche d’une part et d’autre par les autobiographies de jeunesse, les dissertations scolaires, les articles philologiques, Zarathoustra, Ecce Homo, les lettres, les dernières cartes postales signées par « Dionysos » ou « Kaiser Nietzsche », les innombrables carnets où s’enchevêtrent les notes de blanchisserie et les projets d’aphorismes. En fait, si on parle si volontiers et sans s’interroger davantage de l’« oeuvre » d’un auteur, c’est qu’on la suppose définie par une certaine fonction d’expression. On admet qu’il doit y avoir un niveau (aussi profond qu’il est nécessaire de l’imaginer) auquel l’oeuvre se révèle, en tous ses fragments, même les plus minuscules et les plus inessentiels, comme l’expression de la pensée, ou de l’expérience, ou de l’imagination, ou de l’inconscient de l’auteur, ou encore des déterminations historiques dans lesquelles il était pris. Mais on voit aussitôt qu’une pareille unité, loin d’être donné immédiatement, est constituée par une opération ; que cette opération est interprétative (puisqu’elle déchiffre, dans le texte, la transcription de quelque chose qu’il cache et qu’il manifeste à la fois); qu’enfin l’opération qui détermine l’opus, en son unité, et par conséquent l’oeuvre elle-même ne sera pas la même s’il s’agit de l’auteur du Théâtre et son double ou de l’auteur du Tractatus et donc, qu’ici et là ce n’est pas dans le même sens qu’on parlera d’une « oeuvre ». L’oeuvre ne peut être considérée ni comme unité immédiate, ni comme une unité certaine, ni comme une unité homogène.
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Michel Foucault (The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language)
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Mais vous ne m'avez jamais dit non plus que vous ne m'aimez point; et vraiment, me dire de semblables paroles, ce serait de la part de Votre Majesté une trop grande ingratitude. Car, dites-moi, où trouverez-vous un amour pareil au mien, um amour que ni le temps, ni l'absence, ni le désepoir ne peuvent enteindre; un amour que se contente d'un ruban égaré, d'un regard perdu, d'une parole échappée?
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Alexandre Dumas (Unknown Book 13115370)
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She emerged between the dunes onto a wide expanse of sand that seemed to stretch endlessly to either side of her: the grey of the sand melded seamlessly into the sea and sky, so that it was impossible to tell where one ended and the other began. The wind hit her with such force, it felt like a living thing. There was nothing between her and Norway.
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Sanjida Kay (My Mother's Secret)
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In 1690 in his An Essay on Human Understanding, John Locke explores what it is for a person to be self-same, that is to say, be one person and remain that same person over the course of time. Sameness of person is marked out by unity of consciousness. “Self is that conscious thinking thing,” Locke writes, “which is sensible, or conscious of pleasure and pain, capable of happiness or misery, and so is concerned for it self as far as that consciousness extends.” So, if an individual can, within their consciousness of the present, repeat the experience of a past action with the same consciousness they had of it originally, then the individual is the self-same person. In other words, can they remember it?
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Jeffery Nicholas (Dune and Philosophy: Weirding Way of the Mentat (Popular Culture and Philosophy Book 56))
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It would take another twenty-seven years before the first government-authorized lifesaving stations were erected on Cape Cod. In all, nine stations were built from Race Point in Provincetown to Monomoy Island in Chatham. These two-story wooden structures were put up in the sunbaked dunes away from the high-water mark, thus protecting them from floods. They were painted a deep red and carried sixty-foot flags to make them easily recognizable from the ocean. The stations were manned by up to seven surfmen from August 1 to June 1 of the following year. The station’s keeper kept a watchful eye for the remaining two months. The keeper earned $200 per year for his duties while the surfmen were paid $65 a month. Each surfman, no matter how many years of service, was obligated to pass a strenuous physical examination at the dawn of each new season. Writer J. W. Dalton described the surfman’s weekly routine in his 1902 book, The Life Savers of Cape Cod: “On Monday the members of the crew are employed putting the station in order.
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Michael J. Tougias (The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue)
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Ce monde ne mourra pas d'une bombe atomique, comme le disent les journaux, il mourra de rire, de banalité, en transformant tout en farce et, de plus, en mauvaise farce.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1))
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De chacun de nos actes dépend l'équilibre du tout. Les vents et les mers, les puissances de l'eau, de la terre et de la lumière, tout ce que font ces éléments, et tout ce que font les bêtes et les végétaux, est bien fait, et justement fait.
Tous agissent selon l'Equilibre. Depuis l'ouragan et le plongeon de la baleine géante jusqu'à la chute d'une feuille morte et le vol du moustique, tous leurs actes sont fonction de l'équilibre du tout.
Mais nous, dans la mesure où nous avons un pouvoir sur le monde et sur chacun de nous, nous devons apprendre à faire ce que la feuille, la baleine et le vent font naturellement. Nous devons apprendre à maintenir l'Equilibre.
Ayant été dotés d'intelligence, nous ne devons pas agir comme des ignorants. Ayant le choix, nous ne devons pas agir comme des irresponsables.
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Ursula K. Le Guin (The Books of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1-6))
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I am their Emperor, and they will do as I say.
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Brian Herbert (Dune: House Corrino (Prelude to Dune Book 3))
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Dune is like a great engine that we are oiling and repairing. One day this world will serve us in new and wondrous ways, just as we will continue to honor and serve it. My Fremen brothers, we are part of the ecosystem ourselves, an integral part. We occupy our own essential niche.
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Brian Herbert (Dune: House Corrino (Prelude to Dune Book 3))
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Greatness is a transitory experience.
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Frank Herbert (Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3)
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The blood of innocents has always been the currency of charismatic leaders.
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Brian Herbert (The Machine Crusade (Legends of Dune, Book 2) 1st (first) edition Text Only)
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Something cannot emerge from nothing,
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Frank Herbert (Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3)
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Steps Beach has, quite possibly, the most beautiful approach of any beach in the world. You descend forty-three steps into sand dunes covered by rosa rugosa, which in the height of summer blooms with pink and white flowers. Dionis Beach is where Richie is found asleep in his car in this novel. In the book, I say that Dionis has public showers—this is fiction. It does not have showers.
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Elin Hilderbrand (The Hotel Nantucket)
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I liked Game of Thrones, but I lost interest after the third book. Dune was an… experience.
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Jessa Wilder (Rule Number Five (Rule Breaker, #1))
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one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
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Frank Herbert (Children of Dune (Dune, #3))
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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.
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Frank Herbert (Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3)
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There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives... The greatest peril to the Giver is the force that takes. The greatest peril to the Taker is the force that gives. It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking." - Paul (pg 722, book 1, pt 3)
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Frank Herbert (Dune (Dune, #1))
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Nous sommes tous de lopins et d’une contexture si
informe et diverse, que chaque piece, chaque momant,
faict son jeu. Et se trouve autant de difference de nous à
nous mesmes, que de nous à autruy. We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in
composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own
game. And there is as much difference between us and
ourselves as between us and others. Michel de Montaigne, Essais, Second Book, 1 Cada um de nós é vários, é muitos, é uma prolixidade
de si mesmos. Por isso aquele que despreza o ambiente
não é o mesmo que dele se alegra ou padece. Na vasta
colónia do nosso ser há gente de muitas espécies,
pensando e sentindo diferentemente.
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Pascal Mercier (Night Train to Lisbon)
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Aussi conviendrait-il, pour parvenir à parler sans honte des livres non lus, de nous délivrer de l’image oppressante d’une culture sans faille, transmise et imposée par la famille et les institutions scolaires, image avec laquelle nous essayons en vain toute notre vie de venir coïncider. Car la vérité destinée aux autres importe moins que la vérité de soi, accessible seulement à celui qui se libère de l’exigence contraignante de paraître cultivé, qui nous tyrannise intérieurement et nous empêche d’être nous-même.
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Pierre Bayard (How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read)
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Arabiandesertdubai
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When Children of Dune came out in hardback in 1976, it was an instant best seller. True to the prediction of David Hartwell and the gut feeling of my father, it became the top-selling hardback in science fiction history up to that time . . . more than 100,000 copies in a few months. When the novel came out in paperback the following year, Berkley Books initially printed 750,000 copies. That wasn’t half enough, and they went back to press. Six months after the release of the paperback, Dad said paperback sales were approaching two million copies.
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Frank Herbert (Children of Dune (Dune, #3))
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Nous devons à un chercheur marocain, M. Fawzi Skali, la transcription des enregistrements de conversations qu'il a eues, au cours de l'été 1986, avec divers notables religieux dans le cadre d'une enquête sur la « géographie spirituelle » de Fès. Parmi les personnes interrogées figure un ancien professeur à la Qarawiyyîn. Questionné sur le soufisme, il se déclare fort hostile aux « soufis extrémistes » (ghulât) parmi lesquels il compte Hallâj, Ibn Arabî, Ibn Sab`în... et Muhammad al-Kattânî, l’auteur déjà cité de la Salwat al-anfâs. Mais il affirme en même temps goûter les poèmes d’Ibn al-Fârid, de Shushtarî ou d’Al-Harrâq qu’on récite dans les séances : « Ils contiennent, dit-il, des sens si subtils, si spirituels ! » La cohabitation chez le même homme de ces deux attitudes logiquement contradictoires est un fait que l’on peut souvent observer chez des musulmans qui, touchés par les courants réformistes, se présentent comme hostiles au soufisme ou, à tout le moins, comme partisans d’un soufisme « modéré » dont Ibn Arabî est bien évidemment exclu.
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Michel Chodkiewicz (An Ocean Without Shore: Ibn Arabi, The Book, And The Law)
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Do you like to read?” I asked, pointing at my little shelf.
Moses eyed my books. “Yes.”
His answer surprised me. Maybe it was his reputation as a gang banging delinquent. Maybe it was because of the way he looked. But he didn’t seem like the type who enjoyed sitting quietly with a book.
“What’s your favorite book?” I sounded suspicious and his eyes tightened.
“I like Catcher in the Rye. The Outsiders, 1984, Of Mice and Men, Dune, Starship Troopers, Lord of the Rings. Anything by Tom Clancy or JK Rowling.”
He said JK Rowling quickly, like he didn’t want to admit to being a Potter fan. But I was stunned.
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Amy Harmon (The Law of Moses (The Law of Moses, #1))
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In ancient Arabia, homosexuality was age-structured, involving bearded, mature men in love with beardless teenagers like you and Albert. The beard is a sign of manhood and masculinity. “Many Arabian poets described the object of their love as an adolescent boy, going to great lengths to describe “desirable” physical features. ● This ideal young man is always brown and slender. ● His waist is supple and thin like a willow branch or like a lance. ● His hair, black as scorpions. ● The hair that falls on his forehead curls like the Arabic alphabets. ● His eyes are arcs with hurl arrows. ● His cheeks are roses. ● His saliva has the sweetness of honey. ● Last but not least, his buttocks resemble a dune of moving sand. When he walks, you could call him a young faun. When he is motionless, he eclipses the brightness of the moon.” At this juncture, my professor gave me a beguiling smile, before adding, “You, Young are a perfect specimen of this ideal.
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Young (Turpitude (A Harem Boy's Saga Book 4))
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Je lisais … comme toujours lorsqu’on est emporté par la magie d’une histoire bien racontée ou la simple ivresse de se reconnaître à travers des mots plus habiles que les siens.
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Gabrielle Roy (La Détresse et l'Enchantement)
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When I wrote the book [LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care], I was filled with a sense of hope for the future. Barack Obama was the president of the United States, and it felt like real progress was being made in the areas of health care and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender-nonconforming, queer, and/or questioning rights. During Trump’s first 100 days, I’ve felt the sands of that progress shift backward down a sloping dune beneath my feet.
-- From "The Challenge of Staying Hopeful in the Age of Trump," The Advocate, April 28, 2017
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Kimberly D. Acquaviva
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If one refers to the texts, it is undeniably clear that the dead individual becomes a tutelary spirit of a specific location. In the Celtic sphere, the Triads in the medieval Welsh manuscript Llyfr Coch Hergest (Red Book of Hergest) say that the head of Llyr’s son, Bran the Blessed, was hidden in the White Hill of London with its head turned facing France. As long as it remained in that position, the Saxons could not oppress the island. The remains of Gwerthefyr (Guorthemir) the Blessed were hidden in the principal ports of this island and so long as they remained concealed there was no fear the Saxons would invade the country.11 Pomponius Mela tells how the Philaeni brothers had themselves buried beneath a dune to ensure Carthage took possession of a contested territory and, certainly, in order to become tutelary spirits. The place took the name of Arae Philaenorum.
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Claude Lecouteux (Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices)
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He recalled another thing the old woman had said about a world being the sum of many things- the people, the dirt, the growing things, the moons, the tides, the suns- the unknown sum called nature, a vague summation without any sense of the now. And he wondered: What is the now?
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Frank Herbert (Dune (Dune, #1))
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How the mind gears itself for its environment... The mind can go either direction under stress - toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training." Bene Gesserit axiom (pg 423, book 1, pt 2)
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Frank Herbert (Dune (Dune, #1))
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He remembered the Dune novels he used to read as a kid and the huge sand worms that would rise up and swallow anything on the surface that moved. He felt like food for a sand worm now.
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Nick Thacker (The Russian Betrayal (Harvey Bennett Thrillers Book 15))
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When receiving an unexpected gift, a wise man does not ask too many questions. Only the foolish person assumes that a gift is simply a gift, and that there are no implied obligations. —DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, Venport Holdings consolidation memo
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Brian Herbert (Navigators of Dune (Schools of Dune #3))
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The ability to survive is the ability to face and overcome unexpected dangers. —Bene Gesserit axiom
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Brian Herbert (Dune: The Duke of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 1))
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The best leaders assemble information and take actions that lead to political stability. The worst leaders dissemble information and generate chaos. —A lesson from Imperial history
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Brian Herbert (Dune: The Duke of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 1))
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Suspicions have a way of becoming “facts,” even if they have no basis in truth. —PRINCESS IRULAN, The Book of Muad’Dib
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Brian Herbert (Dune: The Duke of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 1))
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The difference between delirium and insight is only a matter of perspective. —DR. WELLINGTON YUEH, private medical journals
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Brian Herbert (Dune: The Duke of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy Book 1))
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A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher wanted to tell her—at least this is what she claimed—that she, the teacher, found my behavior different from that of the other children, that I spoke of dreams and desires that were too grandiose, ambitions that were abnormal for children my age. She said that the others wanted to become firemen or policemen, but I spoke of becoming the king or the president of the republic; that I swore that as soon as I grew up, I’d take my mother far away from my father and that I’d buy her a château. I would like for this book—this story of her—to be, in some way, the home in which she might take refuge.
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Édouard Louis (Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme)
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A world is supported by four things….” She held up four big-knuckled fingers. “…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing….” She closed her fingers into a fist. “…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!” A
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Frank Herbert (Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3)
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A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.’ That
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Frank Herbert (Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3)
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She said the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So
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Frank Herbert (Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3)
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There are no facts—only observational postulates in an endlessly regenerative hodgepodge of predictions. Consensus reality requires a fixed frame of reference. In a multi-level, infinite universe, there can be no fixity; thus, no absolute consensus reality. In a relativistic universe, it appears impossible to test the reliability of any expert by requiring him to agree with another expert. Both can be correct, each in his own inertial system. Bene Gesserit Azhar Book
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Brian Herbert (Dune: House Corrino (Prelude to Dune Book 3))
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The axis of spin for the planet Arrakis is at right angles to the radius of its orbit. The world itself is not a globe, but more a spinning top somewhat fat at the equator and concave toward the poles. There is a sense that this may be artificial, the product of some ancient artifice. Report of the Third Imperial Commission on Arrakis
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Brian Herbert (Dune: House Corrino (Prelude to Dune Book 3))
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The heartbeat steadied, their minds opened … and the flow began, like a torrent through an open dam. Lobia poured her life into Anirul, transferring memories, aspects of personality, every bit of data contained in her long life. One day, Anirul herself would pass the information to another, younger Sister. In this manner, the Sisterhood’s collective memory was amassed and made potentially available to all Bene Gesserit.
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Brian Herbert (Dune: House Corrino (Prelude to Dune Book 3))
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Following two generations of chaos, when mankind finally overcame the insidious control of machines, a new concept emerged: “Man may not be replaced.” Precepts of the Butlerian Jihad
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Brian Herbert (Dune: House Corrino (Prelude to Dune Book 3))
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Dès l’instant où la porte s’ouvrit, je me tendis. J’eus l’étrange sensation que l’air se modifiait et le silence éloquent de mon visiteur me fit hausser les sourcils. Allons bon, il me faisait la gueule ?
— Si tu ne voulais pas me parler en venant ici, va jouer au muet ailleurs.
Le ricanement grave qui emplit l’espace me fit sursauter. Je savais à présent que ce n’était pas Rafayel, mais un homme à qui je n’aurais jamais pensé adresser la parole, qui se tenait à quelques pas de moi.
— Yphaëlle, tu es toujours aussi aimable quand tu t’adresses à une personne pour la première fois ?
Je haussai les sourcils face à cette voix grave qui s’était enroulée autour de mon prénom.
— Toujours, répondis-je en me retournant vers lui. Et tu débarques toujours à moitié vêtu dans la chambre d’une inconnue ?
Il me fit un sourire malicieux qui creusa des fossettes dont je ne soupçonnais pas l’existence.
— Toujours.
À la bonne heure, un comique. Je détaillai l’homme, bien plus grand et mieux bâti que Rafayel et dont la peau était légèrement basanée, qui me faisait face et je croisais les bras. Il ne portait que l’ample pantalon en tissu noir qui montrait son appartenance à ma caste, laissant ainsi son ventre plat et bien sculpté à qui voudrait regarder.
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Phoenix Pharell (L'Éveil (Cendresa, #1))
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Since instantaneous foldspace communication did not exist between planets, certified and bonded Couriers booked passage on express Heighliners, bearing flash-memorized communications for personal delivery to the intended recipients. The net result was much faster than radio or other electronic signals that would take years to cross vast space.
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Brian Herbert (House Atreides (Prelude to Dune, #1))
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Dad told me that you could follow any of the novel’s layers as you read it, and then start the book all over again, focusing on an entirely different layer. At the end of the book, he intentionally left loose ends and said he did this to send the readers spinning out of the story with bits and pieces of it still clinging to them, so that they would want to go back and read it again. A neat trick, and he pulled it off perfectly.
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Frank Herbert (Dune (Dune, #1))
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Rigorously independent, the Fremen did not consider themselves true Imperial subjects. They viewed the Harkonnens as interlopers, temporary occupants who would be cast aside one day, in favor of another ruling House. In time, the Fremen themselves would rule here. Their legends foretold this.
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Brian Herbert (Dune: House Corrino (Prelude to Dune Book 3))
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In a society where hard data is uncertain at best, one must be careful to manipulate the truth. Appearance becomes reality. Perception becomes fact. Use this to your advantage. Empress Herade, A Primer on the Finer Points of Culture in the Imperium
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Brian Herbert (Dune: House Corrino (Prelude to Dune Book 3))
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It seemed to Jessica that love was something a machine could not experience, and humans had defeated thinking machines in the Butlerian Jihad, millennia ago. But if humans were the victors, why did this remnant of non-humanity—the savagery of the gom jabbar—thrive in one of the Great Schools? Savagery was as much a part of the human psyche as love. One could not exist without the other.
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Brian Herbert (Dune: House Corrino (Prelude to Dune Book 3))
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BOOK THREE THE PROPHET No woman, no man, no child ever was deeply intimate with my father.
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Frank Herbert (Dune (Dune, #1))
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I'm positive. I'm just positive that this is going to hurt.
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Cindy Bell (Hobbies and Homicide (Dune House Cozy Mystery Series Book 25))
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Sometimes friends can turn out to be your greatest enemies.
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Cindy Bell (Hobbies and Homicide (Dune House Cozy Mystery Series Book 25))
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You would be surprised how much just some companionship after a shock like this can help.
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Cindy Bell (Hobbies and Homicide (Dune House Cozy Mystery Series Book 25))
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But to me, if you can find something that you enjoy spending your time doing, then you are a very lucky person.
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Cindy Bell (Hobbies and Homicide (Dune House Cozy Mystery Series Book 25))
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But people can do some very unexpected things when they're under pressure. And we don't always know people as well as we think.
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Cindy Bell (Hobbies and Homicide (Dune House Cozy Mystery Series Book 25))
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What are the chances that two people end up on the same beach on the same day, who have a hidden past?
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Cindy Bell (Hobbies and Homicide (Dune House Cozy Mystery Series Book 25))
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There's a big difference between thinking someone might want to take something from you, and thinking that someone might want to take your life.
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Cindy Bell (Hobbies and Homicide (Dune House Cozy Mystery Series Book 25))