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Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

Henri Bergson

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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
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
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
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
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
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
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 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

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