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It seems that laughter needs an echo.

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.
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Appearance Definition Laughter Oneself Sound
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
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
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
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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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
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

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