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Henri Bergson

French philosopher — Nobel Prize in Literature (1927) — author of Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, and Creative Evolution — who argued that reality is fundamentally temporal, that intuition is superior to intellect for grasping duration, and that life is animated by an élan vital.

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