Paul Gauguin quotes
5 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Paul Gauguin wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming. Yet I am not one of those who speak ill of life. You suffer, but you also enjoy, and however brief that enjoyment has been, it is the thing you remember.
This is not a book. A book, even a bad book, is a serious affair.
Civilization is leaving me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only a little hatred for my neighbour — better, to love him. I have all the pleasures of a free life, animal and human. I am escaping the artificial, the conventional, the habitual. I am entering into the true, into nature.La civilisation s'en va de moi, peu à peu. Je commence à penser simplement, à n'avoir que peu de haine pour mon prochain, — mieux : à l'aimer. J'ai toutes les jouissances de la vie libre — animale et humaine. J'échappe au factice, à la convention, à l'habitude. J'entre dans le vrai, dans la nature.
When will men understand the meaning of the word liberty? You have known for a long time what I have wanted to establish: the right to dare everything.Quand donc les hommes comprendront-ils le sens du mot Liberté — Vous connaissez depuis longtemps ce que j'ai voulu établir : le droit de tout oser.
I wanted, before dying, to paint a large canvas that I had in my head, and for the whole month I worked day and night in an unheard-of fever.Alors j'ai voulu avant de mourir peindre une grande toile que j'avais en tête, et durant tout le mois j'ai travaillé jour et nuit dans une fièvre inouïe.
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