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The End before the Beginning
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2024-10-29 19:42:56I wonder what CEO Adam Arnault defines as imperfect?
Well, coming from a mind as perfectionist as his, I venture to say that it is only what he has never dared to look beyond the limits of the world he has been taught to live in, where our casualness is seen as an excuse for those who cannot reach the extreme of the beautiful and the perfect. An ideal world where no competition is allowed, only a crowd, which despite being exhausted, is relentless when it comes to one day reaching the standards of beauty that belong to them.
That is why, tonight, I choose to challenge everything he believes in by clinging to the theory that yes, aesthetic beauty is certainly attractive, but over time, one will need something more to keep the admiration burning like a flame. This may be intelligence, charismas, or a lost soul for those who love
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