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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.

Henri Bergson

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
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
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
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Carry Essence Feeling Intelligence View

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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