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«Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached»
«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.»
«Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.»
Author: Louise Bogan (Critic, Poet) | About: Achievement, Innocence | Keywords: innocence
«No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden»
«Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.»
Author: Madame de Stael | Keywords: candor, innocence
«Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed»
«Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes»
«Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.»
«Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.»
«Innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with ignorance»

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