The sentence that is correctly hyphenated is "The beauty of Mount Fuji's near-perfect cone shape has enchanted people for centuries."
Near-perfect is correctly hyphenated because in this context it is a compound modifier, it modifies Mount Fuji's appearance.
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Joe Starks symbolizes for Janie the horizon that Zora Neale Hurston ... She does not find in Logan the "bee to her blossom" that she thought nature had promised ... Joe is younger, "cityfied," well-mannered, and very ambitious. ... Logan, so when Joe comes along, Janie sees him as a symbol for freedom and carefree living.
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The meaning of this is that burning books is not as terrible as not writing them at all. Stafford is trying to say that if you have an idea for a book and you do not write the book, or start it, but never finish, then that is worse then burning a book that's already written.
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I not 100% sure but I hope it helps :)