Quote by Simone Weil
Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. - Simone Weil

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. – Simone Weil

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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. – Simone Weil

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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. – Simone Weil

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As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined man or woman verily become one with the Godhead. – Katha Upanishad

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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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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 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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