Guillaume Apollinaire's Quote - To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and t

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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis

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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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We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. – Jean Rostand

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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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