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"It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical."
"A rose trapped inside a fist."
"Look, moonI turned silver for you."
"Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black."
"A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life."
"The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!'A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. 'No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol."
"Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."
Explore more quotes by Frank Herbert
"The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead."
"No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer."
"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
"We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane."
"Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?"
"In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches."
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
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