"Now my innocence begins to weigh me down."

Racine, Jean on innocence   

"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't."

Thomas, Dylan on innocence
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"Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion."

Wilde, Oscar on innocence
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"Who would not rather trust and be deceived?"

Cook, Eliza on trust
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"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average."

Retz, Cardinal Jean Francois de on trust
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"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer."

Watson, Thomas J. on trust
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"My father used to say: Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

Young, Stark on trust
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"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"

Goldsmith, Oliver on seduction
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"You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body."

Guccione, Bob on seduction
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"The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them."

Lehmann, Rosamond on seduction
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"Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle."

Paglia, Camille on seduction
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"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."

Eliot, George on sensitivity
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"How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought..."

Plath, Sylvia on sensitivity
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."

Puzo, Mario on sensitivity   

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."

Thoreau, Henry David on sensitivity   

"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are."

Cecil, Robert on solitude
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on solitude
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another."

Mcdonald, George on love
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible."

Mooneyham, Stan on love
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"Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little."

More, Hannah on love
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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love"

Mother Teresa on love
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"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action."

Mother Teresa on love
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"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa on love
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"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

Mother Teresa on love
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus on love
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"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on love
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais on love
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"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

Pascal, Blaise on love
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"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."

Gogh, Vincent Van on love
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"The best way to know God is to love many things."

Gogh, Vincent Van on love
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"Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on love
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"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."

Harrigan, John on love
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"The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

Hayes, Helen on love
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"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

Hayes, Helen on love
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"Love and a cough cannot be hid."

Hebert, George on love
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"Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important."

Hoffman, Lisa on love
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