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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure

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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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. – Oscar Wilde

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. – Oscar Wilde

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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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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. – 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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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis

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