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

Henri Bergson

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
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action Artist Expression Freedom
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
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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Effect Past Present Reason
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
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
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Intellectual Necessary Reality
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
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Complication Imagination Kind Laughter Reality
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
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
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

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