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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. |
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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.- Bruce Springsteen
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
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.
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
