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“Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.”

Book:God Emperor of Dune

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God Emperor of Dune

In this novel, the reader is taken deeper into the complex political and ecological landscape of the Dune universe. The narrative explores themes of power, religion, and the human condition through the eyes of various characters, including the enigmatic God Emperor himself. more

Author

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert, born on October 8, 1920, was an influential science fiction author from the United States. His masterpiece 'Dune' is considered a classic in the science fiction genre and has had a profound impact on literature and society. more

“Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. “Awful,” a girl said. “En français,” Madame O’Malley replied. “En français.”

Firsts Long Said Moments Feelings School Girl Silence Class First Time Awful Tuesday Moment Of Silence

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move”

Moving

Book:Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent

Source: Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent

“The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.”

People Spiritual Secret Conditions Hunger Hungry Satisfied Awful Persist Attainment Thirsty Spiritual Success

Author:Smith Wigglesworth

“I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.”

Knows Ends Stories Doctor Who

Author:Steven Moffat

“I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Heart Feelings Interest Love Is Pleasure Healing Share Influence Sorrow Please Offers Resent Unfaithful Interest In Life

Book:L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more

Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more

“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”

Ifs Years Would Be Absolutes Revolutionary Ardent Absolute Power

Book:NASI-onalisme ?

Source: NASI-onalisme ?

“It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.”

People Knows Trying Humans Ends Sometimes Lying Fall Communicate Clarity Being Human Inadequate

Author:Claire Messud

“Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.”

Dream Night Half Events Hair Understood Bones Remembered Wild Women

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Only the children know what they are looking for.”

Knows Children Yawning