Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive"
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Refuge
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Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge."
Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror"
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"Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven."
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"The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge."
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"Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life."
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"Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty."
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"Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence."
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"Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre."
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"Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely."
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"I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart."
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"Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do."
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"Your home is your refuge."
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