Innocence Quotes
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The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
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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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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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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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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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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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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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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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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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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 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.
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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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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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Like the Bible says. A child should be leader of them all, and to be led by that kind of innocence. Didnt Jesus say bring on the children? Be like the children. Not childish, but child-like. That kind of innocence.
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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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The world had little patience or concern for innocence.
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I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
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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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Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
