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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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