purge quotes

  • Behold, thoudesiresttruth intheinward parts: and inthe hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 51:6^7.

  • Every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty†likea dryshell onthebeach, waiting for thetide to come in again.

    - Dame Daphne du Maurier
      In the Ladies Home Journal, Nov.

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