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• The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Beautiful, Distance

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• The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances.

  Geoff Dyer

  Lying, People, Wish

  Geoff Dyer (2012). “Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence”, p.81, Canongate Books

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• You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

  Taylor Swift

  Book, Writing, Perfect Days

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• Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, First Love, Should Have

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Beautiful, Frustration

  "Great dynasties of the world: The Chaplins" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2011.

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• You take I-55 south, and you'll run into I-20. Or you could take..." I was about to be overloaded with information. "Oh that sounds just perfect. Let me do just that, or I'll lose track." Sure, glad I could help." Oh, you surely did." We beamed at each other, just two nice women. I had to fight an impulse to say "I have a tortured vampire in my trunk," out of sheer giddiness.

  Charlaine Harris

  Running, Nice, Fighting

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Club Dead”, Ace Trade

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• It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweat, Want, Break

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.7, Penguin

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• Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Together, Way, Fit

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.135, Hachette UK

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• Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect.

  Jack Johnson

  Dream, Picture Perfect

  Song: Bubble Toes, Album: Brushfire Fairytales

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• No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

  Confucius

  Lakes, Circles, Wave

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• He doesn't marry a woman who is perfect. He marries the woman who is interesting.

  Copyright © by Sherry Argov

  Sherry Argov

  Interesting, Principles

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart”

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• How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.

  W. G. Sebald

  Book, Twilight, Dark

  W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.140, Vintage Canada

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• You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things

  John Mayer

  Book, Knowing, Lines

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• Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted.

  Catherine Marshall

  Feel Better, Ideas, Healthy

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• ...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans

  Richard Paul Evans

  Men, Perfect Days, Quality

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• Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and *die*. The storybooks are *bullshit*. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and *get* in my bed!

  John Patrick Shanley

  Love, Inspirational, Stars

  "Moonstruck". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Matter, Ends

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• ... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Mistake, Reading, Men

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• Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.

  Dean Koontz

  Home

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.472, Bantam

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• Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.

  Salman Rushdie

  Betrayal, Thinking, Sight

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• Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

  Andrew Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

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• But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Simplicity, Way, Divine

  Fernando Pessoa (1971). “Selected poems by Fernando Pessoa: including poems by his heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis [and] Alvaro de Campos, as well as some of his English sonnets and selections from his letters”

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• A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

  C. S. Lewis

  Journey, Men, People

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strong, Men, Soul

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.21, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Twists, Good Things

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