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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

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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Escape Moments Object Simple Time
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
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Art Attitude Eyes Image Ourselves Reproduction Run Success
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
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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

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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