"Even women are perfect at the outset."
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"The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands."
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"The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory."
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"Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable."
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"It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
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"He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection."
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"I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection."
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"The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience."
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"I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection"
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"Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised. Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain. Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body."
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"Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for."
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"I rarely come away from presenting the 'Today' programme without some sense of regret. There is always some question that I should have asked, or some point that I should have made. This is annoying but not surprising. Perfection is hard to achieve in a three-hour live programme."
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"In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album."
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"Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection."
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"I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less."
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"Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part."
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"For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic."
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"A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading."
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"Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing."
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"I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again."
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