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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 only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. – Simone Weil

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Purity of heart is to will one thing. – Soren Kierkegaard

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

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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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