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He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

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.

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware.

I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.

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

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.

It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.

It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.