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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

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
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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Add Matter Perception Requirement Strip Vision Yourself
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
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
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
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
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
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
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Day Language Philosophy
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
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
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
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
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
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

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