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“when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !”

Knows World Art Hands Enemy Millions Fire This World Understood Perfection Greek Live By Excess Greek Art

Book:Impressions that remained

Source: Impressions that remained

“True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.”

Self Life Is Creativity Creative Fire Development Perfection True Life Heaviness Self Perfection

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.”

Littles Moments Fire Perfection Brilliant Brilliant Ideas

Author:Richard Bach

“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.”

Knows Kind Made Enough Lasts Guy Fire Rocks Taste Perfection Eternity Paid Stealing Tenderness Eagles Rest Of Your Life Liver Every Second Chained

Book:Paint It Black

Source: Paint It Black

“Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.”

Soul Seems Desire Force Fire Example Arms Argument Perfection Direct Passionate Wave Burning Flames Nevertheless Maximum Fervor

Author:Hermann Hesse

“His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.”

Fall Fire Sky Color Perfection Snow Silver Gray Fierce Repressed Loveliness Snow Falling Clockwork Prince Gray Skies

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.”

White Fire Flower Beats Perfection Blue Rose Snow Flames Kitchen Fragile Holding On Unnatural Greenhouses Vases Flare Embers Flare Up White Rose

Author:Suzanne Collins