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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Henri Bergson

To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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
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.
HENRI BERGSON

Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
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.
HENRI BERGSON

Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?
HENRI BERGSON

Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
HENRI BERGSON

Body Influence Movement Myself Return
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
HENRI BERGSON

Past Preserve Reality
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.
HENRI BERGSON

Artificial Intelligence Manufacture Original Willing
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.
HENRI BERGSON

Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit

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