Simone Weil's Quote - Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. – Simone Weil

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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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The future is made of the same stuff as the present. – Simone Weil

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The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. – Simone Weil

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. – Simone Weil

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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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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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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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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis

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