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In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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The quote contrasts an imagined “higher world” with ordinary human life. Here, living means changing over time, and perfection is not remaining fixed. It is having changed often—through growth, experience, or correction. The wording presents change as a natural part of life and suggests that becoming better may require repeatedly leaving earlier ways behind.
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