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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
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There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
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There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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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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