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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.

Henri Bergson

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 are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
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
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
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
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
HENRI BERGSON

Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol

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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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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