naivete

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710b7c4	It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.	youth mccandless inexperience krakauer naivete	Jon Krakauer
fac232f	I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.	youth romance optimism soul-mate naivete	Audre Lorde
d12b990	The deeper reality is that I'm not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I'm certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?...There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There's probably a third level, too--how I want to think I feel.	reality naivete	Chuck Klosterman
bea7093	The world's crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I'm just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.	naivete dreaming innocence	Haruki Murakami
ff4caa7	"I want to set the record straight." "The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read ? They rewrite the record anytime it doesn't suit them. You're spinning your wheels and exposing your bare fanny for nothing."	orwellian social-work naivete	David Eddings
029385b	Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.	candide henry-kissinger turkish-invasion-of-cyprus turkey naivete war-crimes cyprus voltaire crime self-esteem	Christopher Hitchens
53cea79	we know little of the things for which we pray	prayer naivete supernatural	Geoffrey Chaucer
22efa08	I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.	youth naivete innocence	Daphne du Maurier
c254671	How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.	happiness life love pretty-little-things naivete	Louisa May Alcott
7b68916	"How are babies made?" Visibly startled, Jordan turned and opened his mouth, as if he intended to speak, but for some reason no words came out. At first Alexandra was puzzled by his involuntary silence, but then understanding dawned. She shook her head and sighed with sympathy for their mutual plight. " You don't know either, do you?"	naivete innocence	Judith McNaught

710b7c4

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

youth mccandless inexperience krakauer naivete

Jon Krakauer

fac232f

I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.

youth romance optimism soul-mate naivete

Audre Lorde

d12b990

The deeper reality is that I'm not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I'm certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?...There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There's probably a third level, too--how I want to think I feel.

reality naivete

Chuck Klosterman

bea7093

The world's crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I'm just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.

naivete dreaming innocence

Haruki Murakami

ff4caa7

"I want to set the record straight." "The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read ? They rewrite the record anytime it doesn't suit them. You're spinning your wheels and exposing your bare fanny for nothing."

orwellian social-work naivete

David Eddings

029385b

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

candide henry-kissinger turkish-invasion-of-cyprus turkey naivete war-crimes cyprus voltaire crime self-esteem

Christopher Hitchens

53cea79

we know little of the things for which we pray

prayer naivete supernatural

Geoffrey Chaucer

22efa08

I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

youth naivete innocence

Daphne du Maurier

c254671

How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.

happiness life love pretty-little-things naivete

Louisa May Alcott

7b68916

"How are babies made?" Visibly startled, Jordan turned and opened his mouth, as if he intended to speak, but for some reason no words came out. At first Alexandra was puzzled by his involuntary silence, but then understanding dawned. She shook her head and sighed with sympathy for their mutual plight. " You don't know either, do you?"

naivete innocence

Judith McNaught