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"I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty."
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"No text, being human creation, is free from flaws " it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones."

"In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value. Perfection, after all, implies you've reached the zenith. There is no possibility or potentiality. There is no room for imagination. There is no ability to visualize a concept. Perfection is limited by its own nature, which in short, is zero."

"Do you generally feel uncomfortable around people whom you perceive to be perfect? Is there really such a thing as the perfect person? Of course not! Our flaws are often what differentiates us from each other, and no person is perfect."

"Your imperfections make you the perfect tool for God to work with. John 3:16"

"There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness."

"If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey."

"Imperfection contains more information than perfection."

"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."

"Monk... not monk but Andrian Monk makes mistakes if he makes then and we can."
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"Whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off-then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."

"The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up-flaked up, with rose-water snow."

"Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form."

"One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab."

"He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea."

"How I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast."
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