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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Illumination
Darkness
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Education
Light
Flooding

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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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