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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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them… and they flew. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. – Simone Weil

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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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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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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. – H. L. Mencken

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