Source: 1980s, Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990), Chapter 5
“In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent”
“Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.”
Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954)
“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
Source: On Self-Respect
“Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence.”
“Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #31
Athenäum (1798 - 1800)
Context: Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
Pt. I, ch. 3, sect. 3
Source: The Quiet American (1955)
