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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.

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.
– Frank Herbert

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