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If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. — Leo Tolstoy

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If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

In the original Russian

Если искать совершенства, то никогда не будешь доволен.

Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina · 1877
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Perfectionism
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1877
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Leo Tolstoy
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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.
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Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

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