Woche 1633

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"The Fremen are civil, educated and ignorant," Scy-tale said. "They're not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous." — Dune Messiah

"The wise man molds himself-the fool lives only to die." — Dune Messiah

A woman there berated someone: the new wing of their house leaked dust, she complained. Did he think water fell from heaven? If dust came in, moisture got out. — Dune Messiah

"They've blinded my body, but not my vision" — Dune Messiah

"We have forgotten," Paul had said in response to her question, "that the word 'company' originally meant traveling companions. We are a company." "But what value are they?" "There!" he'd said, turning his frightful sockets toward her. "We've lost that clear, single-note of living. If it cannot be bottled, beaten, pointed or hoarded, we give it no value." — Dune Messiah

Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end. — 2666

What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench. — 2666