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Quote by Henri Bergson
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for y

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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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. – Henri Bergson

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

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Imagination
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. – Bela Lugosi

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Imagination

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a directors imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground. – Toby Jones

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Imagination

Some stories are true that never happened. – Elie Weisel

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Imagination

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment. – Dorthea Brande

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Imagination

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A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. – Leslie Fiedler

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Not by might, or power, but by my spirit, says the Lord. – Bible

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The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. – Christopher Lasch

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