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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

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
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex
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
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
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
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Attention Different Life Man Mental Ourselves Remove Tone
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized… we shall have war.
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Condition Population Ration Reproduction War
Divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.
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Belong Divine God Himself Love
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
To ease another’s burden, help to carry it.
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Burden Carry Generosity Help
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
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
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent

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