"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
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"When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object."
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"The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly."
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"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
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"Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen."
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"The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering."
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"It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality."
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"Art is a shadow of Divine perfection."
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"I'm chasing perfection."
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"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."
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"Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure."
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection."
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"Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well."
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"Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole."
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"To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous."
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"Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible."
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"The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection."
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"Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections."
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"Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind."
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"Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living."
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