"Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it."
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"Perfection is static, And I am in full progress."
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"It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment."
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"In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection."
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"Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away."
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"Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into"
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"Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection."
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"Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame."
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"Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world."
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"The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds."
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"There will never be any more perfection than there is now."
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"See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it."
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"You are the Beloved, you are the Divine, you are a creation that is made into perfection."
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"Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it."
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"But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute."
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"Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment."
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"I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age."
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"The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it."
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"So,would you say I’m closer to a zombie or a vampire? I gotta know—are my parts going to rot and fall off, or am I forever frozen in youthful perfection?"
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"The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God."
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