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

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

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