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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Gauguin
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Paul Gauguin
Age: 55 †
Born: 1848
Born: January 1
Died: 1903
Died: January 1
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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
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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.
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With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
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for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!
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