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Tag Name "Innocence" (557)

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Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
Amos Bronson Alcott
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
Anne Carson
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One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
Jodi Picoult
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When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
C. S. Lewis
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
Dee Dee Myers
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Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
Giorgio de Chirico
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Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.
Loren Eiseley
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He's arm'd without that's innocent within Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.
Horace
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
Moliere
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Henrik Ibsen
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Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.
Mary Anne Radmacher
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I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.
Pedro
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No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.
Federico Fellini
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He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
Henry Miller
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What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?
Simone Weil
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Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.
Walter Lippmann
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Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
Hector Tobar
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One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.
Michael Adam Hamilton
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What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.
Annie Dillard
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I think there's an innocence to me.
Krista Allen
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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.
Peter Lindbergh
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