“Perfection is the dream of imperfection that refuses to wake up.”
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
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“I describe imperfect characters. Every character in this book will be found to be more or less imperfect, my pen refusing to draw anything in the model line.”
— Charlotte Brontë, book Shirley
Source: Shirley (1849), Ch. 5: Hollow's Cottage
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