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“PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.”

States Views Quality Known Feet Style Elements Perfection Letters Agree Excellence Critics Magazines Editors Attributes Imaginary Pointing Distinguished Matthew

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.”

Levels Imagine Higher Perfection Imaginary

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.”

Men Mind Children Ideas Girl Education Imagine Figures Perfection Noble Sentiments Imaginary Daydreaming Extravagant Enchanting

Book:A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac

Source: A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac

“The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.”

Perfection Imaginary Krishna Gita

Book:The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi

Source: The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi

“The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.”

Past Desire Perfection Imaginary

Book:The Waning of the Middle Ages

Source: The Waning of the Middle Ages

“Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where the troubles of today will be cured by a tomorrow, and all our losses will be recouped, our problems solved, our lives restored, our people made whole again, etc.”

People Problem Dream Today Loss Trouble Tomorrow Perfection Thrive Imaginary Nostalgic

Author:Charles D'Ambrosio

“I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.”

World Kind Soul Body Order Sin Vision Needed Despair Perfection Property Strive Depth Glad Lust Compare Imaginary Nausea

Author:Hermann Hesse

“PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.”

States Quality Known Elements Perfection Excellence Critics Attributes Imaginary Distinguished

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.”

World Different Order Perfection Strive Versions Compare Imaginary Perfectionism Imaginary World Experiencing The World

Author:Gary Zukav