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"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection."
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"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is."
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"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
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"Perfection is ordinary, imperfection is beauty."
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"Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely."
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"Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved."
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"Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after."
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"Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection."
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"Do not try to be perfect, just be real."
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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
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"You were born perfect, you only forgot."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Day
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
People
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
Home
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
Character
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
Life
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
Work
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