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Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Speaker: Antoine de Saint-ExuperySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent, condemns one, in our society, to a dark and disillusioned life, a condition one ought to accept at an early age. To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things – some sort of balancing of the scales offered by nature to those less favored among her children – no, it is a superfluous plaything that exists only to enhance the value of a jewel. As for ugliness, it is guilty from the start, and I was doomed by my tragic destiny to suffer all the more, for I was hardly stupid.