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Civilization is what makes you sick. - Paul Gauguin

Civilization is what makes you sick. – Paul Gauguin

Other quotes by Paul Gauguin

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, 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

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Artist, The
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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. – Paul Gauguin

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Diets and Dieting
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Paul Gauguin
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. – Paul Gauguin

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Crayons & Colors
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Paul Gauguin
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Other Quotes from
Civilization
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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Civilization

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Civilization

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. – David Hare

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Civilization

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. – Richard P. Feynman

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Civilization

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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand. – Issey Miyake

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I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. – Mia Hamm

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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. – Rene Descartes

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