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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Henri Bergson

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
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
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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Image Influence Movement Myself Sight
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
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Artificial Feature Intelligence Manufacture Special Tools
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
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
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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Association Division Element Life Process
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
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
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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Image Memories Object Perception Soul Space Understand

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