Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.Paul Gauguin
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.
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But I owe something to Vincent Van Gogh, and that is . . . the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
Paul Gauguin
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
Paul Gauguin
Civilization is what makes you sick.
Paul Gauguin
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
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