“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”

Source: Fight Club

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

It tells of his twilight, when the great battles were over and the great miracles long since performed; of how his enemies conspired against him and of that final war in the snowblind wastes beneath the Northern Lights; of the women he loved and of the choice he made between them; of how he broke his most sacred oath, and how finally all the things he had were taken from him save one. It ends with a wink. It begins in a quiet midwestern town, one summer afternoon in the quiet midwestern future. Away in the big city, people still sometimes glance up hopefully from the sidewalks, glimpsing a distant speck in the sky... but no: it's only a bird, only a plane — Superman died ten years ago. This is an imaginary story... aren't they all?
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (1986)

L’homme n’est jamais ni parfait, ni content.
Source: The Mysterious Island (1874), Part I, ch. XXII

Source: Anna Karenina

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Part IV, Chapter VI
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)

Quote of Boudin's note, c. 1890; as cited in G. Jean-Aubry & Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1968, p. 115
1880s - 1890s