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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. John Fowles _ The Magus

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

    It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Thomas Moore _ A Life At Work: The Joy Of

    Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
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  9. Chuck Palahniuk _ Fight Club

    I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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  10. Chuck Palahniuk _ Fight Club

    One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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  11. Alan Brennert _ Honolulu

    Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.
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  12. Michael Cunningham _ The Hours

    There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
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