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"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
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"Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier."

"Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection."

"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."

"If you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong."

"After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot " how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point."

"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."

"Drop all ideas of becoming someone; you are already perfect."

"No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves."
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"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."

"Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show."

"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly."

"Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."

"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive."
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