Quote by Simone Weil
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. - Simon

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

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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. – Simone Weil

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A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again – Simone Weil

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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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To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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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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