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"The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices."
"The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory."
"No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done."
"Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth."
"It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short."
"She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short."
"I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes."
"To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well."
"It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before."
"If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men."
"I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect."
"Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally."
"I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things."
"Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things."
"As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures."
"Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect."
"The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be."
"A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth."
"And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect."
"And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation."
