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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Henri Bergson

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
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
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 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
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

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