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Henri Bergson - 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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Henri Bergson

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Born: October 18, 1859
Died: January 4, 1941 (aged 81)
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