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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Henri Bergson

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.
HENRI BERGSON

Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
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
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
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
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
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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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
The motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Change Creation End Existence Maturity
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSON

Association Division Element Life Process

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

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