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  1. Colum McCann _ Let the Great World Spin

    People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
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  2. Thomas Edison

    had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed
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  3. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there.
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  4. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
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  5. Beth Revis _ A World Without You

    I want the freedom to mess up," I say. Just once, I want to be the one who's allowed to screw up. I want the freedom to choose. Right now, I have no choice. I have to be this way. But one day, I'll be free. I'll be be able to live my life without having to be perfect. I'll be able to do anything I want - or nothing at all. I'll wander around aimlessly. I'll make mistakes. I won't worry about being safe, being perfect.
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  6. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot

    In order to achieve perfection, we must first of all fail to understand a great many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand very well.
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  7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot

    You know, in my opinion, being ridiculous is sometimes even a good thing, and better than that: we can forgive one another more quickly, and acquire humilty more quickly; after all, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin directly from perfection!
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  8. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Avonlea

    I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.
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  9. John Fowles _ The Magus

    Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.
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  10. Colson Whitehead _ The Intuitionist

    It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
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  11. Barry Hughart _ The Story of the Stone

    To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.
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  12. Hermann Hesse _ The Glass Bead Game

    There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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