Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.
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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When he turned and walked into the living room he knew instantly why it was that he hadn’t wanted to come here, and that he ought to get out as soon as he possibly could. There, staring him in the face, was everything he’d been...
They had stopped shouting at each other and put their faith in legal counsel. With the result that how things could be made to look was what counted, not how they actually were.
The world (including Drapervilleh is not a nice place, and the innocent and the young have to take their chances. They cannot be watched over, twenty-four hours of the day. At what moment, from what hiding-place, the idea of evil will strike, there is no...
His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.
It seemed like a mistake. And mistakes ought to be rectified, only this one couldn't be. Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed. I had to find an explanation other than the...
