Fernando Pessoa: We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imp

We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. — Fernando Pessoa

We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.

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