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" "Useful professions are clearly meant for the public, but those whose utility is more dubious can only justify their existence by assuming that the public is meant for them.
Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential in the first half of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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"O cômico é inconsciente. Como se utilizasse ao inverso o anel de Giges, ele se torna invisível a si mesmo ao tornar-se visível a todos. (...) Se Harpagon nos visse rir de sua avareza, não digo que se corrigisse, mas no-la exibiria menos, ou então no-la mostraria de outro modo. Podemos concluir desde já que nesse sentido sobretudo é que o riso "castiga os costumes". Obriga-nos a cuidar imediatamente de parecer o que deveríamos ser, o que um dia acabaremos por ser verdadeiramente."