Paul Gauguin Quotes

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Paul Gauguin

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• I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

  

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• Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

  

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• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  

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• Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

  

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• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

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• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  

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• If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

  

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• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

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• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  

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  • Up
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• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  

  Hari Kunzru
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• I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

  

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• Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
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• I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

  

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• Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

  

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• I want to become more famous, even more famous.

  

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• The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

  

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• My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.

  

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• When the emperor is crowned or the three dukes are appointed, rather than sending a gift of jade carried by four horses, remain still and offer the Way.

  

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• I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

  

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• In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

  

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

• In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Sea
  • Europe
  • Intercourse