People get it wrong when they talk about innocence: they think it’s something to do with ignorance about the facts of sex and all the nasty things that happen in the world. But facts don’t change people: it’s understanding how the facts feel that does.
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
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...there was something in the texture of the weave that felt happy: theecho of a memory so far down in his soul it was all emotion, aburst of colour and warmth, adrift from time and place.
Some things should never be said. Not out loud in clear, simple words. You talk around them. You leave gaps and blanks. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>You use other words and talk in curves and arcs for the worst things because you need to keep them like...
It’s always better to accomplish something than nothing, but coming of age is about more than learning who you are inside: it’s as much about who you are in relation to others — and who you want to be
Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives.
You must not fear that clutching at your dreams will shatter them so they run through your fingers like sand. That way lies a life spent in yearning. But yearning is only a season of dreaming, for dreams, if nurtured, become strong.
