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What had the Lady Jessica to sustain her in her time of trial? Think you carefully on the Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you can not see the mountain."


--from "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan

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Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.


--from "The Humanity of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

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How do we approach the study of Muad'Dib's father? A man of surpassing warmnth and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open th eway to this Duke: his abiding love for his Bene Gesserit lady; the dreams he held for his son; the devotion with which men served him. You see him there--a man snared by Destiny, a lonely figure with his light dimmed behind the glory of his son. Still, one must ask: What is the son but an extension of the father?


--from "Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan

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Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a well-spring of cunning and resourcefulness"


-- from "Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan

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-- Alia Atreides as written by Princess Irulan

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To attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.


-- from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by Princess Irulan

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