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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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to ones beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. – James Baldwin

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If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – 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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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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Purity of heart is to will one thing. – Soren Kierkegaard

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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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