purity

gold

wedding ring

trivia

is far too often demanded. The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure.

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. Oscar Wilde

is no better than corruptness. When men are pure, they are useless, when men are corrupt, they are broken.

When men are pure, laws are useless... when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

is possible if one turns one's life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. Yukio Mishima

is, when decadent, the most malignant of all kinds of decay in the world

. . . of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant. Yukio Mishima

is seeing purity in all things. To the pure all things are pure.

 stands outside of a being and is not dependent on itself. For nature, human language is the condition of its purity that stands outside of it.

It is a mistake to postulate anywhere a purity that exist in itself and needs only to be preserved.. . . The purity of a being is never unconditional or absolute... it is always subject to a condition. This condition varies according to the being whose purity is at issue... but this condition never inheres in the being itself. In other words: the purity of every (finite) being is not dependent on itself.. . . For nature, human language is the condition of its purity that stands outside of it. (Benjamin 1966, 206/138 in Agamben 2005:61)

is a condition of the mind that causes one to snoop around in garbage-dumps and start a league.

purity, n.All

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