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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 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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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. – 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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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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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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I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll. – David Walliams

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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. – Rene Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"

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