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Tag Name "Innocence" (557)

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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.
Harry Mulisch
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Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Germaine Greer
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The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.
Jane Porter
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Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
Robert Browning
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The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.
Hermann Hesse
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
Jean de La Fontaine
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When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.
Publilius Syrus
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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
Louise Bogan
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Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!
Rajneesh
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If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating processthen death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.
Jean Giraudoux
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Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child.
Rajneesh
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Whoever blushes is already guilty true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
Charles Peguy
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I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
Virginia Woolf
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Photography is Photography And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else.
Frederick H. Evans
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
William Blake
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Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children penance, but we are afraid of it generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.
Pope Pius X
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When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.
Barbara Marciniak
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