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“If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“The too-perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection.” Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” - 1791

“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.” Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer” - 1934

“A country that demands moral perfection of itself as a test of its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” Henry Kissinger, “Diplomacy” - 1994

“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them; for the temperate man desires as he ought to desire, and what he ought to desire, as stated in Ethic.” Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” - 1274

“No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

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