"There is no desert like being friendless."
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"Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert."
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"I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert."
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"What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote."
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"Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen."
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"Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert."
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"Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us."
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"Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants."
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"Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her."
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"I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot."
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"most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time."
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"Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*."
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"It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24."
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"The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world."
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"Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert."
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"Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other."
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"Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless."
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"What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life."
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"The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede."
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"How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out."
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