I’m reading Dune by Frank Herbert and it has such glorious glimpses of truth. Stark, naked, beautiful and terrifying truth. I love books that do that.
Extracts:
“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man–with human flesh.”
“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
Also, someone posted this recently, and I love it so much. So much!
“The fault of our society always seems to me to be timidity and self- consciousness; and I feel oddly vehement, and very exacting, and so difficult to live with and so very intemperate and changeable, now thinking one thing and another.” – Virginia Woolf.
