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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

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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
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
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
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
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
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
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

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