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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

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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
Men
Weep
Grown
Places
Break
Beautiful
Make

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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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