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

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

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Beauty
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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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Civilization
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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic. – George Carlin

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Civilization

Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

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Civilization

The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men” (lecture)

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Civilization

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

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Civilization

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I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. – Dorothy Day

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A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. – Moira Kelly

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Graduation

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness. – Enrique Iglesias

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It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt – in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure – to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. – Harry Oppenheimer

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Failure