Chim picked up his camera the way a doctor takes his stethoscope out of his bag, applying his diagnosis to the condition of the heart. His own was vulnerable.


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HENRI BERGSON
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSON
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, bu...
HENRI NOUWEN
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tensi...
HENRI NOUWEN
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual ...
HENRI NOUWEN
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward i...
HENRI NOUWEN
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an...
HENRI NOUWEN
Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we h...
HENRI NOUWEN
In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main way...
HENRI NOUWEN
I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
HENRI MATISSE
I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our sol...
HENRI BARBUSSE
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to k...
HENRI POINCARE
The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam...
HENRI PIRENNE
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, a...
HENRI POINCARE
If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishe...
HENRI POINCARE
Work cures everything.
HENRI MATISSE
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of fo...
HENRI POINCARE
To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing t...
HENRI NOUWEN
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense ...
HENRI POINCARE
Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of st...
HENRI POINCARE
Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A great many of those about me would be im...
HENRI PERRIN
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
HENRI AMIEL
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren...
HENRI AMIEL
A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla...
HENRI AMIEL
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI AMIEL
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t...
HENRI AMIEL
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI AMIEL
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI AMIEL
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI AMIEL
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, ...
HENRI BERGSON
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
HENRI POINCARE
To invent is to discern, to choose.
HENRI POINCARE
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G...
HENRI NOUWEN
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...
HENRI POINCARE
If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
HENRI MATISSE
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
HENRI BERGSON
Do whatever you do intensely.
ROBERT HENRI
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON
Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which ...
HENRI BERGSON
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
ROBERT HENRI
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are...
HENRI MATISSE
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he...
HENRI MATISSE