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I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow.

The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat.

The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of thousands were scheming to take the next boat for the South Seas or the West Indies, or better still for Paris, from which they could scatter to Majorca, Corsica, Capri or the isles of Greece. Paris itself was a modern city that seemed islanded in the past, and there were island countries, like Mexico, where Americans could feel that they had escaped from everything that oppressed them in a business civilization. Or without leaving home they could build themselves private islands of art or philosophy; or else - and this was a frequent solution - they could create social islands in the shadow of the skyscrapers, groups of close friends among whom they could live as unconstrainedly as in a Polynesian valley, live without moral scruples or modern conveniences, live in the pure moment, live gaily on gin and love and two lamb chops broiled over a coal fire in the grate. That was part of the Greenwich Village idea, and soon it was being copied in Boston, San Francisco, everywhere.

She had the world__ worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.