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• Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Dream, Stupidity, Solitude

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.7, Booklassic

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• Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics, cranks, and charlatans.

  Michio Kaku

  Space, Community, Risk

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.23, OUP Oxford

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• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

  Brian May

  Spiritual, Stars, Simple

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• How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] 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.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Views, Feelings

  "Christopher Hitchens: 'Freedom of speech means freedom to hate'". Christopher Hitchens' remarks at University of Toronto's Hart House Debating Club, blog.skepticallibertarian.com. November 2006.

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• Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Mediocrity, Individual, Sole

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• Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

  Kim Stanley

  People, Historical, Analogies

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• Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Prayer, Responsibility

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed”, p.100, Aeterna Press

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• Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Ideas, Anxiety

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

  Abraham Maslow

  Wise, Hero, Saint

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Silence, Dull

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.392, Princeton University Press

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• Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write sentences of such authenticity that refuge can be taken in them: isn't this enough? Isn't it a lot?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Taken, Writing, Weight

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, World, Mercy

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• For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster... The Lord has warned us of famines, but the righteous will have listened to the prophets and stored at least one year's supply of survival food.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Years, Survival, Warning

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• I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ... I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Baby, Art, Husband

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• Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Romance, Engagement

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Stupid, Umbrella

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.

  L. Tom Perry

  Children, Life Lesson, Home

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• Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Doubt, Liberty, Jurisprudence

  Planned Parenthood v. Casey (joint opinion) (1992). Coauthored with Anthony M. Kennedy and David H. Souter.

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• Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Blessing, Expectations, Boredom

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.8

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• My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Despair, Serious

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• When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as Bertrand Russell says, "one at least of our nobler impulses can best escape from the dreary exile of the actual world."

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Men

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.143, Cambridge University Press

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• While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creatures affords me a certain safeguard. Where all else is dangerous, hostile and liable to inflict pain, they alone can do me no injury because, probably, they are not even aware of my existence. The birds are at once my refuge and my relaxation.

  Anna Kavan

  Pain, Believe, Bird

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• Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Hate, Buddhism

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• Music is my life. Music runs through my veins. Music inspires me. Music is a part of me. Music is all around us. Music soothes me. Music gives me hope when I lose faith. Music comforts me. Music is my refuge.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Running, Giving

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• I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

  William Gaddis

  Player, Piano Music, Piano Playing

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