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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

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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Civilization
category

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

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Civilization

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

Category:
Civilization

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. – Vance Havner

Category:
Civilization

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Civilization

Random Quotes

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. – Jean de La Fontaine

Category:
Fear

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. – Anna Quindlen

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Freedom

Money wont buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. – Bill Vaughan

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funny

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is. – Yvonne Craig

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Imagination