A Quote by Kay Kay Menon
The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.
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Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.
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