“ You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity. ”
- Graham Green- Copy
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“ The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance. ”
- Adrienne Rich- Copy
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“ A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do — namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions. ”
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