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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

Edward Abbey

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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
Sadness
Life
Rejoice
Tragic

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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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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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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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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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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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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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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war for nationalism identification with something bigger than the self.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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