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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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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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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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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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