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He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

Mark Helprin

Stichwörter: truth innocence beauty horse

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d

Alexander Pope

Stichwörter: innocence

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.

John Stuart Mill

Stichwörter: innocence morality abstinence characteristics commandments nobleness paganism precepts reaction

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

Joan Didion

Stichwörter: innocence disillusionment self-acceptance

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

Stichwörter: inspirational innocence growing-up self-determination self-responsibility parenting personal-responsibility right-of-passage

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

Jim Henson

Stichwörter: innocence sophistication inner-child

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.

But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

John Adams

Stichwörter: innocence justice law common-law judicial

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

Cormac McCarthy

Stichwörter: life innocence growing-up experience youth loss-of-innocence truths