To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Exister consiste à changer, changer à se mûrir, se mûrir à se créer indéfiniment soi-même.
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Henri Bergson
Leading French philosopher (1859-1941). His durée, élan vital and intuition broke with mechanistic time and Darwinian gradualism. Won the 1927 Nobel in Literature; first chair of the League's intellectual committee.
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