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Innocence quotes

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“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

“Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.” Albert Camus, “The Fall” - 1956

“why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“There's no way to rule innocent men.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 2” - 1594

“Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naïve and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience!” Edith Wharton, “The Age of Innocence” - 1920

“Hence, also, we are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature; it only appears with the motives, and only in time do the motives appear in knowledge.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that's not innocent; nor can we be passive when freedom is under siege.” Ronald Reagan, “State of the Union Address” - 6 February 1985

“Let those who are snake-charmers play with snakes; if harm comes to them, they are prepared for it. But these boys are so innocent, all the world is ready with its blessing to protect them. They play with a snake not knowing its nature, and when...” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three men, and of these three two were priests.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“Always the innocent are the first victims” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” - 1997

“They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut...” George R. R. Martin, “A Storm of Swords” - 2000

“I really felt ashamed to take advantage of the ingenuousness or grateful feeling of the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.” Charles Dickens, “The Old Curiosity Shop” - 1841

“blameless people are always the most exasperating.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

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