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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

Henri Bergson

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action Artist Expression Freedom
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
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
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
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
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.

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