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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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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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Art
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. – Simone Weil

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

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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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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Excellence can be attained if you care more than others think is wise,
Risk more than others think is safe,
Dream more than others think is practical, and
Expect more than others think is possible. – Anon.

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