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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

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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
Heroic
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Suffering
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Others
Life

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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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God is love? Not bloody likely.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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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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