Innocence Quotes
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
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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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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
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Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
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Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
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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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I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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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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Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.
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The world had little patience or concern for innocence.
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I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
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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.
