#innocence

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. ↗

— Anatole France

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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#ignorance #innocence #us

Love wasn't to be measured, much less restricted, by methodology. Love wasn't a method. Love was a faculty of the highest order, imagined or unimagined. Love wasn't an activity. Love was an experience. Love was the second coming of innocence. ↗

— Rob Inclan

#love #experience

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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