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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

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 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
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
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 varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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?
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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
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
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

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.

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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.

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