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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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As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined man or woman verily become one with the Godhead. – Katha Upanishad

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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. – Simone Weil

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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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