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Joy is the mental reflex of the pure existence-of an...

Joy is the mental reflex of the pure existence-of an existence capable only but itself.

Quote by Emil Cioran about joy, existence

Truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Quote by Oscar Wilde about truth

Works of imagination should be written in very plain...

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about art, language, imagination

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about democracy, quality

There are very few things that are purely conceptual...

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about things

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent...

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about wish, human imperfections, life

The Queen... has never experienced anything else. That...

The Queen... has never experienced anything else. That life, that knowledge, that wisdom is purely natural to her.

Quote by Prince Andrew about knowledge, wisdom, life

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

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

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about help

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not...

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about sadness

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure...

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Quote by Johnny Depp about love

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself...

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about water, character, fire, fire brigade, man

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about technology, music

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a...

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about air, democracy, public, life

The movie business is very much like that: people in...

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about authority, affair, people

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing, man

It's entertainment, pure entertainment. And frankly, I...

It's entertainment, pure entertainment. And frankly, I want my cut.

Quote by Don Johnson

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each...

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

Quote by George Oppen about mathematics, rules

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

Quote by Brian De Palma about opinion, art, magic

I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

Quote by Andy Partridge about fear

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