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Your overconfidence is your weakness.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Luke names the danger in the Emperor’s certainty. Palpatine assumes he understands and controls the confrontation; Luke answers by pointing to that confidence itself as a weakness. The exchange makes self-belief sound useful only while it leaves room for what you have missed.
Sources (1)
- Star Wars: Jedi at40 QuotationsItem28, first of paired lines, Luke SkywalkerReference checked
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