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• Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

  Fred Rogers

  Giving, Littles, Clue

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• It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Law, Intellectual

  H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

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• They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

  Jane Austen

  Party, Eye, Sight

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.201, Full Moon Publications

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• Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.

  Jen Lancaster

  Best Effort, Tiny, Flaws

  Jen Lancaster (2006). “Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office”, p.17, Penguin

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• How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes...dies.

  George Carlin

  Funny, God, Sarcastic

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• In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Depression, Believe

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• To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

  Jane Austen

  Age, Perfect Happiness, Wells

  "Fictional character: The Voice of Jane Austen". "Northanger Abbey", www.imdb.com. March 25, 2007.

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• Think, for a moment, of the countless happy childhood hours you spent with this amazing device: Drawing perfect horizontals, drawing perfect verticals, drawing really spastic diagonals, trying to scrape away the silver powder from the window so you could look inside.

  Dave Barry

  Thinking, Drawing, Childhood

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.92, Ballantine Books

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• Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

  Douglas Adams

  Children, Maturity, Order

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)

  Lauren Weisberger

  Beautiful, Soul, Skins

  Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Sexy, Nice

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• No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Mistake, Smart

  "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, books.google.ru. May 31, 2011.

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• For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

  Ann M. Martin

  May Not Be Perfect, Safe, Want

  Ann M. Martin (2013). “A Corner of the Universe”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.' It was the perfect motto for Morganville.

  Rachel Caine

  Running, Firsts, Motto

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.150, Penguin

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• Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.

  Robin McKinley

  Wall, Compassion, Names

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• Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

  Yukio Mishima

  Blood, Lines, Purity

  "Runaway Horses". Book by Yukio Mishima, 1969.

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• I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

  Barry Lyga

  Eye, Past, Land

  Barry Lyga (2007). “Boy Toy”, p.372, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Pain, Party

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• Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.

  Che Guevara

  Black, Mountain, Faces

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

  Anne Rice

  Evil, Devil

  Anne Rice (1992). “The Tale of the Body Thief”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sadness, Bad Day, Closing Up

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• It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

  David Eddings

  Men, Hands, Wells

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1996). “Belgarath the Sorcerer”, Del Rey Books

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• I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.

  Russell Kirk

  Loyalty, Organization, Numbers

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Grandmother, Heaven, Soul

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• (From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.

  Peter Carey

  Hurt, Annoyed, Wish

  Peter Carey (1994). “Collected stories”

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