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  1. Alain de Botton _ The Pleasures and Sorrows of

    For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations....Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws {a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality}. We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle.
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  2. Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre

    I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
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  3. Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre

    I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
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  4. Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre

    I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
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  5. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.
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  6. Geoffrey Chaucer _ The Canterbury Tales

    If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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  7. Jonathan Swift _ A Tale of a Tub and Other

    These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers' faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demonstration: that whoever will examine the writings in all kinds, wherewith this ancient sect has honoured the world, shall immediately find, from the whole thread and tenor of them, that the ideas of the authors have been altogether conversant and taken up with the faults and blemishes, and oversights, and mistakes of other writers; and let the subject treated on be whatever it will, their imaginations are so entirely possessed and replete with the defects of other pens, that the very quintessence of what is bad does of necessity distil into their own, by which means the whole appears to be nothing else but an abstract of the criticisms themselves have made.
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  8. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding- certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
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  9. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.
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  10. William Shakespeare _ Henry VIII

    We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
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  11. Cecelia Ahern _ Flawed

    I try to focus, but I can't. I know why I'm here, and then I don't know why I'm here. I understand, then I don't. I think it's fair, and then I don't. I wish I'd never done what I'd done, and then I'm glad I did.
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  12. Cecelia Ahern _ Perfect

    And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.
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