The books
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
— Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
"They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity of the sand."
— Gurney Halleck
"Behold, as a wild ass in the desert go I to my work."
— Gurney Halleck
“I assure you from a God’s Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.”
— Leto Atreides II
“What is anathema? The motivation to ravage, no matter the instruments.”
— Leto Atreides II
About the books
"The novel was first published in hardcover in 1965 by Chilton Books, best known for their immense auto-repair novels. No other publisher would touch the book, in part because of the length of the manuscript. They felt it was far too long at 215,000 words, when most novels of the day were only a quarter to a third that length. Dune would require immense printing costs and a high hardcover price for the time, in excess of five dollars. No science fiction novel had ever commanded a retail price that high."
— Brian Herbert in a 2005 afterword to Dune
"I did not want to respect the novel, I wanted to recreate it. For me Dune did not belong to Herbert as Don Quixote did not belong to Cervantes, nor Edipo with Esquilo."
