A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Germaine GreerTags: innocence libraries reading sexuality virginity
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Charlotte BrontëTags: innocence conscience
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 HelprinTags: 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
Tags: 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 MillTags: innocence morality abstinence characteristics commandments nobleness paganism precepts reaction
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
Joan DidionTags: 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 FrankTags: 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 HensonTags: 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.
Tags: 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 McCarthyTags: life innocence growing-up experience youth loss-of-innocence truths
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