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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.