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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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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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

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