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Quote by Henri Bergson
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and r

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. – Henri Bergson

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. – Henri Bergson

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To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson

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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society. – Henrik Ibsen

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. – Charles Lindbergh

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Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious. – Claude Chabrol

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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. – Vicente Fox

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