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

Henri Bergson

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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard 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
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help

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