'Historians exercise great power, and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.'
[Leto II, His Voice, from Dar-es-Balat: Children of Dune]
'There is in all things a pattern that is a part of our
universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace- those
qualities you find always in that which the true artist
captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the
way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the
creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy
those patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the
rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet it is
possible to find peril in the finding of ultimate
perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains
its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.'
[Collected sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan: Dune]
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