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Innocence

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The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,
And the free maids that weave their thread with bones,
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the innocence of love,
Like the old age.

William Shakespeare

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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Albert Camus

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you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

Charles Bukowski

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If I could go through it all again,
the slender iron rungs of growing up,
I would be as young as any,
a child lost
in unreality and loud music.

Robert Lowell

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How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d

Alexander Pope

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