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"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically."
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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."

"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."
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"To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."

"For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided."

"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."

"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."

"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."

"The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind."
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