{"quotes":[{"text":"I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.","author":"Marc Jacobs","tags":["woman","innocence","think "],"id":2305,"author_id":"Marc+Jacobs"},{"text":"Don't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and use the chanceTo return to innocence.That's not the beginning of the endThat's the return to yourselfThe return to innocence.","author":"Enigma","tags":["be-yourself","innocence","lyrics","music","return-to-innocence"],"id":2661,"author_id":"Enigma"},{"text":"Until that day at the dress department Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfort, a balm, an escape from myself; she was literally everything for me – but a woman. Our love in the physical sense of the word had proceeded no further than the kissing stage. And even the way she kissed was childish (I'd fallen in love with those kisses, long but chaste, with dry closed lips counting each other's fine striations as they touched in emotion).In short, until then I had felt tenderness for Lucie, but no sensual desire; I'd grown so accustomed to its absence that I wasn't even conscious of it; my relationship with Lucie seemed so beautiful that I could never have dreamed anything was missing. Everything fit so harmoniously together: Lucie, her monastically gray clothes, and my monastically chaste relation with her.","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["celibacy","chastity","innocence","love"],"id":4782,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["human-beings","innocence","reality","success","whoring"],"id":7087,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.","author":"Annie Dillard","tags":["death","innocence"],"id":8422,"author_id":"Annie+Dillard"},{"text":"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["child","parent","innocence "],"id":9017,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"},{"text":"...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been taken over by civilization, and there is no more room for Indians, Pirates, and Wild Boys?","author":"Christopher Daniel Mechling","tags":["change","childhood","fairy-tale","future","indians","innocence","peter-pan","peter-the-wild-boy","pirates","progressod","true-story"],"id":10004,"author_id":"Christopher+Daniel+Mechling"},{"text":"The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?","author":"Anne Frank","tags":["art","childhood","history","holocaust","innocence","inspirational","life","living-life","world-war-2","world-war-ii","writing"],"id":11224,"author_id":"Anne+Frank"},{"text":"That was my first instinct -- to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need to protect myself. 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.","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["innocence","protection"],"id":12415,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"He asked her, 'Why do you feel sorry for me, Old Woman?'The Old Woman stood beside him and looked out the window at the Garden, so beautiful, flowering and everywhere illuminated by the rays of the setting sun, and said, 'I feel sorry for you, dear Youth, because I know where you are gazing and what you are waiting for. I feel sorry for you and your mother.'Perhaps because of these words, or perhaps because of something else, there was a change in the Youth's mood. The Garden, flowering behind the high fence below his window, and exuding a wonderful fragrance, suddenly seemed somehow strange to him; and an ominous sensation, a sudden fear, gripped his heart with a violent palpitation, like heady and languid fragrances rising from brilliant flowers.'What is happening?' he wondered in confusion.('The Poison Garden').","author":"Valery Bryusov","tags":["decadence","garden","innocence","poison","youth"],"id":13486,"author_id":"Valery+Bryusov"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":452,"pages":46,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}