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Edward Abbey

"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."

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"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."

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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

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"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."

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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

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"It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself."

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"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light."

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"Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch."

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"There is evil! It's actual, like cement.I can't believe it. I can't stand it.Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself."

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"It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wanted something original, but there was no escaping the echo of Mistah Kurtz' final words from the heart of darkness: "The horror! The horror! ... Exterminate all the brutes!"

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"The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light."

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"I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground."

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"There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right."
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"I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way."
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"How become a writer? Naturally."
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"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."
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"As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty."
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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
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"There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave."
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