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Quotes Tagged "loss-of-innocence"

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.
— Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
Tags: youth, truths, loss-of-innocence, life, innocence, growing-up, experience
No mi kršćani upućeni smo po središtu našega Creda - 'mučen pod Poncijem Pilatom' - u povijest u kojoj je bilo razapinjanja i mučenja, u kojoj se plakalo i tako rijetko ljubilo. I nikakav od povijesti udaljeni mit, nikakav Platonovi idejni Bog, nikakva gnostička soteriologija i nikakav apstraktni govor o povijesnosti naše egzistencije ne mogu nam vratiti onu nedužnost koju smo u toj povijesti izgubili.
— Johann Baptist Metz Memoria passionis: Ein provozierendes Gedächtnis in pluralistischer Gesellschaft
Tags: soteriology, plato, loss-of-innocence, innocence, history, historicity-of-existence, god
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
— William Butler Yeats The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Tags: sorrow, poetry, loss-of-innocence, fantasy, fairies, children
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