People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
-- James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
-- Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
-- Ruth Benedict
1887-1948, American Anthropologist
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
-- William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
-- Malcolm Bradbury
1932-, British Author
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
-- Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
-- Sir Edward Coke
1552-1634, British Jurist
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