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Quote by Graham Greene
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so m

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. – Graham Greene

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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. – Graham Greene

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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution. – Graham Greene

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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

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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. – Jean Baudrillard

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Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. – Jean Racine

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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. – Thomas Traherne

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