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It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. -- Tom Hiddleston
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
Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire. -- Carolyn Hart
One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. -- Jodi Picoult
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. -- Dodie Smith
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. -- Steve Toltz
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall? -- Emile M. Cioran
Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. -- Lynda Barry
...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again... -- John Geddes
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. -- Denis Diderot
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker. -- Mike Figgis
I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence - has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day. -- Marianne Williamson
Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear. -- Diane Wakoski
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression. -- William Congreve

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