"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.“

-Hannah Arendt

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"It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past."

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