The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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My body, an object destined to move other objects, is, then, a centre of action it cannot give birth to a representation.Henri Bergson
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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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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.
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
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