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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

Henri Bergson

When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
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

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