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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

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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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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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