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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.

Henri Bergson

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest

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