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The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never… — John Jakes
The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence. — Unknown Author
The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility… — John Frankenheimer
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long.… — Richard Rodriguez
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say,… — William Faulkner
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul… — Toni Morrison
It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast. — Peter Porter
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! — Henry David Thoreau
The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute. — William Shakespeare
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I… — William Saroyan
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
Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood. — Loren Eiseley
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child,… — Ruth Bernhard
Evidence of innocence is irrelevant! — Mary Sue Terry
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more,… — Shakti Gawain
It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth,… — Pope Pius XI
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow… — Cecelia Ahern
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the… — Octavio Paz
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of… — Christian Nestell Bovee
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own… — Herman Melville
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in… — Russell Brand

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