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Thomas de Quincey quote: "Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state."

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

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A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head touching the soft tendrils of a jasmine which grew there in a constant battle with a wisteria, and I thought of what lay before me throughout the world and throughout time, and resolved to go about it delicately and reverently, learning that from each thing which would take me best to another. Anne Rice
Virgil quote: "Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."
Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco. Virgil
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished. Jean-Paul Sartre
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself. Patrick Campbell
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I don't get nervous. Danny Bautista
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. Steve Lacy
I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything. Ivan Lendl
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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul. John B. S. Haldane
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