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  • No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

    Elizabeth Bowen
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    'Out of a Book' in 'Orion III' (ed. Rosamund Lehmann et al, 1946)
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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden. - Elizabeth Bowen
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