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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Henri Bergson

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
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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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
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 regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
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
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
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

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