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• There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure. -- Edward Abbey
• Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary
  men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad...
• Perfection is a minor virtue. -- Edward Abbey
• Simplicity is always a virtue. -- Edward Abbey
• Fantastic doctrines (like Christianity or Islam or Marxism) require unanimity of belief.
  One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions....
• Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock.
  In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock....
• Freedom begins between the ears. -- Edward Abbey
• A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. -- Edward Abbey