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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

Henri Bergson

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
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Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

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