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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
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Men
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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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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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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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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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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