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We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.
To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.
I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.
'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.
In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.
Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.
I've kept alive my childlike innocence. I don't let anything or anyone dampen my zest for life. Now, that's very important.
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.
Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.
Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.
Sexuality and sensuality exists in every women, along with innocence, and I have represented only those through my characters.
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.
Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.
The uniqueness of executive clemency lies in the president's power to act without weighing guilt, innocence and legal principle.
Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.