Perfection is not a mathematical point. It is a life in state of growth; there are degrees in perfection.


“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited

“I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited

“For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer

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