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Alia Atreides is Paul’s Atreides’s teenage sister. She is feisty, precocious, and highly sexually awakened for her age. Lady Jessica had been pregnant with Alia when she became a Reverend Mother. As a result, Alia was born with the power to understand her mother’s psychological state and wisdom. However, she is not equipped with the power to see the future, as Paul is. Throughout Dune Messiah, Dune’s pilgrims worship Alia, considering her to be a goddess. She resents their reverence for her, though, and often longs for a normal life. While the Guild conspiracy considers arranging for Paul and Alia to mate so that they can create the Bene Gesserit heir that they want, Alia finds herself attracted to the conspiracy’s ghola, Hayt. At the end of Dune Messiah, after Hayt becomes Duncan Idaho and Paul has run into the desert to die, the novel implies that Alia and Duncan Idaho begin a relationship.
Alia Atreides Quotes in Dune Messiah
The Dune Messiah quotes below are all either spoken by Alia Atreides or refer to Alia Atreides . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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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.
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Chapter 10
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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?
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Chapter 12
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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.
Chapter 16
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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?
Chapter 19
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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.
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Alia Atreides Quotes in Dune Messiah
The Dune Messiah quotes below are all either spoken by Alia Atreides or refer to Alia Atreides . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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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.
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Chapter 10
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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?
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Chapter 12
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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.
Chapter 16
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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?
Chapter 19
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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.
