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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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Guillaume Apollinaire
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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. – Simone Weil

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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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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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