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Quotes About Dunes

Before terminating at the Berlin Wall, the front in the Cold War ran through the hellish jungles of Vietnam to the oases and deceptively idyllic dunes of the Middle East.
~ Michael B. Oren
What could we do, then? We asked ourselves the question while crossing the dunes. Live? It's precisely in this kind of situation that, crushed by the sense of their own insignificance, people decide to have children; this is how the species reproduces, although less and less, it must be said.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Lo strascico del giorno, come un velo da sposa dimenticato sull'orizzonte, rende lunari, quasi fosforescenti, le dune di sabbia
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
To the south, past the rocks, in the dunes, stood the carved posts of the graveyard. Bebba lay there, it was said, and other queens. Anglisc and British, including Cwenbarh. It was ill luck to linger by the dead, so they walked-they ran, they skipped, they laughed, their dresses kilted up like they were children, bags of bread and beer bouncing, noses streaming-north, to the island.
~ Nicola Griffith