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Quotes about innocence
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. (Baldwin James)
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. (Baldwin James)
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. (Baldwin James)
Every harlot was a virgin once. (Baldwin James)
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. (Baldwin James)
The innocent is the person who explains nothing. (Baldwin James)
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. (Baldwin James)
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. (Baldwin James)
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. (Baldwin James)
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. (Baldwin James)
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. (Baldwin James)
Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you. (Baldwin James)
All things truly wicked start from an innocence. (Baldwin James)
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. (Baldwin James)
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. (Baldwin James)
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. (Baldwin James)
Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. (Baldwin James)
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. (Baldwin James)
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. (Baldwin James)
If you would live innocently, seek solitude. (Baldwin James)
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. (Baldwin James)
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. (Baldwin James)
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. (Baldwin James)
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. (Baldwin James)
I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens. (Baldwin James)
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