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We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.


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UNKNOWN Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
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TERRY PRATCHETT We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
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J. D. GRIFFIN To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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