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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Chastity
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Mind

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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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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 great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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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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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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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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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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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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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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Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.
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