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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

Henri Bergson

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Boredom Director Humiliate Impression Kindness Laughter Object Pain Society Sympathy
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
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
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
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
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
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 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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
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
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 emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power

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