Quote by Paul Gauguin
Civilization is what makes you sick. - Paul Gauguin

Civilization is what makes you sick. – Paul Gauguin

Other quotes by Paul Gauguin

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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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of arts audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. – Paul Gauguin

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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? – Paul Gauguin

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Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? – Mary Baker Eddy

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Civilization

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

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Civilization

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. – Bryan White

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Civilization

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee

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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. – Paulo Coelho

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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Theres a couple things you dont talk about in life, and thats race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I dont talk about politics at all. – Robert Griffin III

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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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