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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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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. – Simone Weil

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

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

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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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