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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Bergson

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
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
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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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
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Dreams Future Hope Ideas Possession Pregnant Reality
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

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