Innocence Quotes
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust
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Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
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You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.
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Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you.
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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
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Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.
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Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
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By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone.
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If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
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Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
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Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," Yossarian answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.
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I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.
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The world had little patience or concern for innocence.
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Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
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I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.
