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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

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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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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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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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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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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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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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