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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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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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The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. – Paul Gauguin

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Artist, The
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Paul Gauguin
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Other Quotes from
Civilization
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Civilization

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Civilization

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism. – John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

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Civilization

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927

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Civilization

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. – Oscar Wilde

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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creations braggart lords. – John Muir

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It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. – Alexandre Dumas, fils

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The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. – Mike Pence

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