Innocence

(156 votes)   The temperate person's pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.

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(108 votes)   The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(94 votes)   People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(70 votes)   If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(70 votes)   Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(69 votes)   I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Dylan Thomas
1914-1953, Welsh Poet

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(67 votes)   I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(66 votes)   Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Thomas Traherne
1636-1674, British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic

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(63 votes)   Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.

Jean Racine
1639-1699, French Dramatist

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(62 votes)   Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Bishop Robert South
1634-1716, British Clergyman

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(62 votes)   Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(53 votes)   Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.

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(53 votes)   The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(48 votes)   Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Friedrich Schlegel
1772-1829, German Philosopher, Critic, Writer

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