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Quote by James Baldwin
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in hear

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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