To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today. — Jackie Jackson Copy Share Image
I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.” — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side. — Joseph Estrada Copy Share Image
Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted… — Ben Fong-Torres Copy Share Image
“Some boys walk by and you cry, seeing them. They feel good, they look good, they are good. Oh, they're not above… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
“It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The hour of spring was dark at last, sensuous memories of sunlight past, I stood alone in garden bowers and asked the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I truly believe in O.J.'s innocence, and unless they find him guilty, I will continue to support him. — Robert Kardashian Copy Share Image
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