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Laughter (1901)
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Laughter has no greater foe than emotion.... To produce the whole of its effect, then, the comic demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart.
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Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
Henri Bergson
Born:
October 18, 1859
Died:
January 4, 1941
(aged 81)
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