I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that’s why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you...
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Alberto Caeiro
I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked."" We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us.
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Unknown
To preserve your innocence while acquiring intelligence, that is a true mark of wisdom.
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Charbel Tadros
Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
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Margaret Atwood
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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Irving Howe
More Quotes By Kathy Acker
Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.
Dreams are manifestations of identities.
She wore red lipstick the next time that I saw her, though her hair was more voluminous with dirt than before. Owing, like everything else about these girls, to the fertility of rats.
After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other
There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women-- I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry,...
