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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

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