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With this painting, I tried to make everything breathe faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style and great nature with its scream.

— Paul Gauguin

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Gauguin is referring to the painting Breton Calvary: The Green Christ.

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A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

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I have lingered among the nymphs of Corot, dancing in the sacred wood of Ville-d'Avray.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

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It takes very little to bring about a woman’s fall, but you have to lift a whole world in order to lift her.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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