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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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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. – Henri Bergson

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Imagination
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Henri Bergson
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. – Henri Bergson

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Attitude
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. – Jim Morrison

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