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Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Alberto Manguel

Book, Reading, World

Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.27, Penguin

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As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.

J. K. Rowling

Nice, Taken, Garden

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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Oscar Wilde

Lasts, Conformity

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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Thomas Sowell

Lasts, Argument

Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.68, Basic Books

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Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

Marianne Wiggins

Eye, Essence, Two

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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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My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Tracy Letts

Book, Simple, Onions

Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.17, Theatre Communications Group

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I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.

Terry Tempest Williams

Mother, Capacity To Love, Rivers

Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.178, Vintage

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Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

Veronica Roth

Noise, Guilty, Activity

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No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

Jose Rizal

Fall, Blow, Ducks

Jose Rizal (2010). “Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero”, p.278, BookBaby

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All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone forever.

Suzanne Collins

Sweet, Memories, Forever

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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I can hear them on the floor below. They will find me in miuntes, or seconds. I scrawl the words on a dirty shred of newsprint. They are nearly illegible, but if he finds them, he will understand: 'Not fast enough. Love you love Jamie. Don't go home' Not only do I break their hearts, I steal their refuge, too. I picture our little canyon abandoned, as it must be forever now. Or if not abandoned, a tomb.

Stephenie Meyer

Dirty, Love You, Home

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Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

Kim Harrison

Taken, World, Extinction

Kim Harrison (2010). “White Witch, Black Curse”, p.51, HarperCollins UK

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…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Beautiful, True Friend, Philosophy

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You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

Guillaume Musso

Save Yourself

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The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are.

Tara Brach

Spiritual, Home, Loss

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For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and all the trouble we enjoyed stirring up out there, we were also cut off from the demands and expectations that had driven us crazy. What could be expected of us now that we were stowed away in a loony bin?

Susanna Kaysen

Crazy, Cutting, Expectations

Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.94, Vintage

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It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.

Patrick Süskind

World, Stills, Ifs

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Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

Mira Grant

Personality, Lasts, Exit

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In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. This place and inner state are called his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds his querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From the matador's perspective, at this point the bull is truly dangerous, for he has tapped into his power.

Tara Brach

Fighting, Long, Safety

Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.64, Random House

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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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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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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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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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The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.

Ron Kind

Beautiful, Successful, Keys

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