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“True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.” George Orwell, 1984
“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.” William Shakespeare, Richard II
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure—an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“I thank my Maker, that, in the midst of judgment, he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto!” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room for stains, not the stars.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“I know that nothing is impossible for pure love.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it!” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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