#innocence

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

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Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

#innocence #life #life is a #march #temptation

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#best #could #did #fell #formal

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#innocence #like

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#activities #age #choice #church #dry

We're children. We're supposed to be childish. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#innocence #myrcella #myrcella-baratheon #childhood

I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#because #every #everything #everywhere #exposed

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ↗

— John Updike

#ever #innocence #innocent #knows #lives

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#any #arts #cannot #exist #feeling

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#because #diverted #innocence #lot #novels