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Jean Paul Writer
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"The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man."

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"I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections."

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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
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"Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style."

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