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Simone Weil quotesPurity is the power to contemplate defilement.
Guillaume Apollinaire quotesTo insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
Henry David Thoreau quotesThe purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
Soren Kierkegaard quotesPurity of heart is to will one thing.
Simone Weil quotesLife does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Oscar Wilde quotesThe sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
James Baldwin quotesNo one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.