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The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.

Henri Bergson

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
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
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
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
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
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 motive power of democracy is love.
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Democracy Love Motive Power
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
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 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
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
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
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Character Intelligence Life Natural

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