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 present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. – Henri Bergson

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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. – 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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Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. – Bill Hicks

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Ive studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. Its mainly about daydreaming. And the techniques really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene. – Sam Rockwell

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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldnt be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead. – Nicole Kidman

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive. – Henry David Thoreau

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