Dune Messiah

by

Frank Herbert

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Chapter 1 Quotes

This moment of supreme power contained failure. There can be only one answer, that completely accurate and total prediction can be lethal.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib)
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 9
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Chapter 3 Quotes

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib)
Page Number: 32
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I’ll yield up myself, he thought. I’ll rush out while I yet have the strength, fly through space like a bird might not find. It was a useless thought, and he knew it. The Jihad would follow his ghost.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker)
Page Number: 46
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Chapter 5 Quotes

“Accepting prescience, you fill your being with concepts repugnant to the intellect. Your intellectual consciousness, therefore, rejects them. In rejecting, intellect becomes a part of the processes and is subjugated.”

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker)
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 75
Explanation and Analysis:

His prescient power had tampered with the image of the universe held by all mankind. He had shaken the safe cosmos and replaced security with his Jihad. He had out-fought and out-thought and out-predicted the universe of men, but a certainty filled him that the universe still eluded him.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib)
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 83
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Chapter 6 Quotes

Where was Idaho in this shaped-to-measure flesh? It wasn’t flesh…it was a shroud in fleshly shape! [Idaho’s] ghost stared out of metal eyes. Two beings stood side by side in this revenant flesh. One was a threat with its force and nature hidden behind unique veils.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) , Hayt (Duncan Idaho)
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 98
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Chapter 7 Quotes

She should have understood long ago this similarity between the spice and the ghola. Melange was valuable, but it exacted a price—addiction. It added years to a life—decades for some—but it was still just another way to die.

Related Characters: Hayt (Duncan Idaho) , Princess Irulan , Gaius Helen Mohiam
Related Symbols: Melange
Page Number: 107
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Chapter 8 Quotes

He was near, she knew—that shadow-figure of a man she could sense in her future, but could not see. It angered her that no power of prescience could put flesh on that figure.

Related Characters: Alia Atreides
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 113
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Chapter 9 Quotes

“People cling to the Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place […] Perhaps religion serves the same purpose.”

Related Characters: Stilgar (speaker), Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) , Edric
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 134
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“[Genghis Khan] didn’t kill them himself. […] He killed the way I kill, by sending out his legions. There’s another emperor I want you to note in passing—a Hitler. He killed more than six million. Pretty good for those days.”

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker), Edric , Stilgar
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 138
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Chapter 10 Quotes

Alia studied the steel balls which were his eyes: no human expression there. His words had carried a reassuring intensity […] a thing Duncan Idaho might have said. Had the Tleilaxu fashioned their ghola better than they knew—or was this mere sham, part of his conditioning?

Related Characters: Hayt (Duncan Idaho) , Alia Atreides
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 151
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Chapter 11 Quotes

Once…long ago, he’d thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way you wanted, but relax for a moment, and it snapped into the ancient forms. Forces at work beyond his reach in human breasts eluded and defied him.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib)
Page Number: 164
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Chapter 12 Quotes

Such powers predisposed one to vanity and pride. Power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier…including one’s own ignorance.

Related Characters: Alia Atreides
Page Number: 182
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Chapter 14 Quotes

[There would be] time enough then to accept the fact that what he had concealed from her had prolonged her life. Was it evil, he wondered, to prefer Chani to an heir? By what right did he make her choice for her?

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker), Chani , Princess Irulan
Page Number: 196
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Chapter 15 Quotes

“[Paul] was a creature who had developed firmly into one pattern. He’d destroy himself before changing into the opposite of that pattern. That had been the way with the Tleilaxu kwisatz haderach. It’d be the way with this one. And then…the ghola.”

Related Characters: Scytale (speaker), Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) , Hayt (Duncan Idaho) , Edric
Page Number: 209
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Chapter 16 Quotes

The immensity of the universe outside the temple flooded his awareness. How could one man, one ritual, hope to knit such immensity into a garment fitted to all men?

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) , Alia Atreides
Page Number: 219
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He had become a non-being, a stillness which moved itself. At the core of the non-being, there he existed, allowing himself to be led through the streets of his city, following a track so familiar to his visions that it froze his heart with grief.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib)
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 225
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Chapter 17 Quotes

Otheym’s house, Fate’s house, a place different from the ones around it only it the role Time had chosen for it. It was a strange place to be marked down in history.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) , Otheym
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 228
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Chapter 19 Quotes

“What’s law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don’t look too closely at the law. Do, and you’ll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You’ll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.”

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker), Chani
Page Number: 253
Explanation and Analysis:

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws must inevitably replace morality, replace conscience, even replace the religion by which you think to govern.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker), Alia Atreides (speaker), Korba (speaker), Lady Jessica (speaker)
Page Number: 257
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Chapter 23 Quotes

He wanted to turn to the aides massed in the sietch entrance, shout at them: if you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker), Chani (speaker)
Page Number: 305
Explanation and Analysis:

Awareness turned over at the thought of all those stars above him—an infinite volume. A man must be half mad to imagine he could rule even a teardrop of that volume. He couldn’t begin to imagine the number of subjects his Imperium claimed.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) , Chani
Page Number: 306
Explanation and Analysis:

Hayt / Idaho / Hayt / Idaho…He became a motionless chain of relative existence, singular, alone. Old memories flooded his mind. He marked them, adjusted them to new understandings, made a beginning at the integration of a new awareness.

Related Characters: Hayt (Duncan Idaho) (speaker)
Page Number: 312
Explanation and Analysis:

Ahhh, that’s why they gave me Idaho as a ghola, to let me discover how much the recreation is like the original. But now—full restoration…at their price. I’d be a Tleilaxu forevermore. And Chani…chained to the same fate by a threat to our children, exposed once more to the Qizarate’s plotting.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker), Hayt (Duncan Idaho) , Chani , Scytale
Page Number: 320
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Chapter 24 Quotes

The Fremen […] had said Muad’Dib would never die, that he had entered the world where all possible futures existed, […], wandering there endlessly even after his flesh had ceased to be.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib)
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 329
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