Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel
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The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
Seamus Heaney
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Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
Herbert Kaufman
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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
Alexander Chase
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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
Albert Camus
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson
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Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.
Joseph Hume
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Chinua Achebe
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Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Carrie Snow
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