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Paul Gauguin Quotes: There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
         

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.


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Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.



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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!



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