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Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

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Jul 20, 2014 02:51PM

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work

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“I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

tags: love, sadness, waste

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“Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities

tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment

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