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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

Henri Bergson

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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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?
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Astonish Children Fly Object Philosophy Try
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
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself

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