Dune Quotations

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Quotations from _Dune_ by Frank Herbert
A human can override any nerve in the body.
Don't sit with your back to any doors.
Humans are almost always lonely.
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what’s incomplete and saying: “Now, it’s complete because it’s ended here.”
the test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.
Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.
There's a place no Truthsayer can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot—into both feminine and masculine pasts.
The natural human’s an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural.
The size of the attack struck his mind like a physical blow.
Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.