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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

Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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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Contact Ideal Reality Resume Work
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
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 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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
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Expression Feeling Heart Intellectual Unique
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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Conscious Exploration Mindset Task Work
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself

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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