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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson

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
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
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
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Act Action Man Myself Thinking
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
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
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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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 exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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