The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
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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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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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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.
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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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One can always reason with reason.
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