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Famous quotes containing the words pure, land and/or worlds:

    “In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “The land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Numbers 35:33.

    “Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)