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

“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

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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

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

“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

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

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

“a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“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

“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

“you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.” Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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

“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

“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

“God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“rich people don’t like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn’t pretty and perfect.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection;” Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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

“The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“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

“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.” Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.” Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

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