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• The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

  Shan Sa

  Moon, Dust, Sky

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• There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

  Djuna Barnes

  Honesty, Liars, Doors

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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• Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

  Dennis Lehane

  Luxury, Essentials, Fence

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

  Theodore Roethke

  Summer, Wall, Dark

  Theodore Roethke, “In A Dark Time”

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• If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.

  Paulo Coelho

  Humility, Love Is, Giving

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• [T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

  Charles Baxter

  Pain, Astonishing, Sensations

  Charles Baxter (2012). “First Light”, p.178, Vintage

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• I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Teaching, Silence

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

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• My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Home, Giving

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• One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

  Zoroaster

  Heart, Meditation, Heaven

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• Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.

  John of Ruysbroeck

  Meditation, Understanding, Radiance

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• There is only a single step between impurity and purity.

  Berl Katznelson

  Steps, Single Step, Impurity

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• I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

  Josh McDowell

  Design, Originals

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• Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Life Is, Highest

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.174, A&C Black

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• I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

  Jo Brand

  People, Laughing, Jokes

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• Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

  Karen Armstrong

  Failing, Tradition, Founders

  "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show". www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Majesty, Scripture

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of Mr. J. J. Rousseau”, p.224

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• The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

  Samuel Johnson

  Influence, Argument, Failing

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.194

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• Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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• True beauty consists of purity of heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beauty, Heart, True Beauty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• My hair is pure. It stands for purity because no foreign chemicals or substances has ever touched my hair.

  CM Punk

  Hair, Wwe, Substance

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• It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

  Jack Kerouac

  Feet, Mountain, Quiet

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.225, Penguin

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• We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

  Orson Scott Card

  Real, Issues, Fiction

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• It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the devil. Like is quickly shown to like. The simplicity of the dove denotes purity of action.

  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Christian, Wise, Mean

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• The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.

  Zhuangzi

  Moon, Years, Sage

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• What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with their brains, and this includes business men as well as artists and writers, will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable armchair.

  Henri

  Art, Men, Brain

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