Purity

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

—Harry Shearer

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

—Thomas à Kempis

There is no immaculate conception in art.

—Walter Kuhn

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

—Tallulah Bankhead

I don't think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular… but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive.

—Annie Dillard

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

—Saint Augustine