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“a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.”

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Author:Dodie Smith

“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.”

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Author:Carolyn Hart

“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.”

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Author:Tom Hiddleston

“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.”

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Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh

“I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.”

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Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“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.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.”

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Book:Against the Day

Source: Against the Day

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

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Book:Nineteen Minutes: A novel

Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel

“I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”

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Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole