Jules Renard: I am a writer whose only desire for perfection prevents me from being great.

I am a writer whose only desire for perfection prevents me from being great. — Jules Renard

I am a writer whose only desire for perfection prevents me from being great.

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You have to take the idea that comes to you by the neck and immediately crush it — Jules Renard
When I think of all the books I have left to read, I am sure that I am still hap — Jules Renard
Baudelaire : his heavy phrase, loaded with electric fluids. — Jules Renard
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Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already.You and I, and all be — Swami Vivekananda
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. — Leo Tolstoy
Practice makes knowledge perfect. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. — John Steinbeck
Chi non punisce il male comanda che si faccia. — Leonardo da Vinci
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he — Leo Tolstoy
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; — Honoré de Balzac
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the genera — George Bernard Shaw