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Quote by Guillaume Apollinaire
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and t

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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Purity of heart is to will one thing. – Soren Kierkegaard

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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. – Henry David Thoreau

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The 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. – Oscar Wilde

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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. – Simone Weil

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