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• There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love. -- Edward Abbey
• There has never been an "original" sin: each is quite banal. -- Edward Abbey
• What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. -- Edward Abbey
• Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*. -- Edward Abbey
• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried. -- Edward Abbey
• My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization.
  Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey...
• We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
  -- Edward Abbey...