In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where e
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature
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To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that?<br/>Come up with a smiling face,<br/>It's nothing against you to fall down flat<br/>But to lie there -- that's a disgrace.
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You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! Do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven
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The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
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A beautiful thing is never perfect.
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
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The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
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Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment
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