Pure love produces pure nonsense.


Jonathan Klinger

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She makes me feel like the reason I have a soul is so I have something pure to give her.
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My pure love is playing music.
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A pure love is a dead love.
ALBERT CAMUS
Nothing is impossible for pure love.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
LOPE DE VEGA
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
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Where one has become indifferent (nispruha), there pure love has not arisen. And where there is no p...
DADA BHAGWAN
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JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
True love comes from a pure heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I love creatures in their pure form.
BEN KINGSLEY
Love is divine
Love is pure.
Love is noble.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Pure heart, pure soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Pure thoughts, pure action.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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DAVID A. R. WHITE
Pure heart begets pure thoughts.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
ANDREW WILES
Unto the pure all things are pure.
BIBLE, TITUS 1:15
Unto the pure all things are pure.
BIBLE
Pure heart more precious than pure gold
RACHMAD ROFIK
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
Pure heart begets pure body, soul and spirit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I never said that. Pure invention. Pure invention,
THABO MBEKI
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO
Feel within, the pure and unconditional Love and embrace all.
GRIGORIS DEOUDIS
But it was pure, this love that I was feeling.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ult...
FULTON J. SHEEN
Actual friendship is the most priceless of all things because it is a combination of two pure hearts...
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Vegan is just pure love. Love for animals, love for the planet, and love for yourself.
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We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will...
MUTULA KILONZO
It's pure spite, pure retaliation. That's all it is.
GREG WILLIAMS
A person does not become clean and pure enough that they are then worthy of God's love and are exalt...
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"Flowers always bloom in the garden of pure love." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
UNKNOWN
Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday’s debris.
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My definition for GOD that works for me is “Pure Energy, Supreme Consciousness.” The highest res...
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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
OSCAR WILDE
"When pure love flows between two hearts, the souls connect." ~ Tom Baker
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure
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My love for you is like a rushing waterfall, it's pure and overflowing.
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed
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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
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Pure and complete sorrow is about as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOY
I am intrigued by the beauty of love.
I was moved by the love of beauty.
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The real Simon Pure.
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A pure heart faces the worst kind of evil in this world. But as it sleeps it's blessed, and it wakes...
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He must be pure who would blame another
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Music for a higher sensibility... Musica para una alta sensibilidad.
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He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.
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It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.
TIONNE WATKINS
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GEORGE ORWELL
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They're pure showgirl birds, a touch of Las Vegas maybe. That's pure Julie stuff.
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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND
Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love
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The ultimate form is the embodiment of love (Premswaroop)! The love of these (so called) lovers (Rom...
DADA BHAGWAN
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
EDMUND HUSSERL
You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. DUARTE
A pure soul always finds love. Even through hate, they will always find the ability to claim love.
TILLIE COLE
The Marvel world is a pure joy to be a part of.
COBIE SMULDERS
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
JOHNNY DEPP
Black as the devil, Hot as hell,
Pure as an angel, Sweet as love.
CHARLES-MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
PILGRIMS
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
PEACE PILGRIM
He has a pure love of the game, no arrogance, and no fear of failure.
DAVID ENGLISH
I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
DONNA LYNN HOPE
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEIL
Nature is Pure.
RICARDO ALONSO
The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and g...
RADHANATH SWAMI
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions o...
RUSSELL M. NELSON
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
AUGUSTUS HARE
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
VICTOR HUGO
The value of life depends on the amount of pure love that you are giving away.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN
No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.
GUNTER GRASS
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Life is pure flame.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE
Religion is pure hypnosis
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Keep your thoughts pure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Praying is pure philosophy.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.
MONICA JOHNSON
If your fiancé or fiancée asked why you love them so much. Remember to say to them no one can expl...
PALITHA ARIYARATHNA
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKA
Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.
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Prayer keeps the heart pure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Give little but give pure.
SUPERNA BATHEJA
Praying is a pure path.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
It was a pure accident.
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from that terrible love the soft pure hands
gave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ...
JONATHAN RABAN
What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT
How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT
What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT
So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT