QuoteQuest“<p>Life at Papeete soon became a burden.</p><p>It was Europe, the Europe which I had thought to shake off — and that under the aggravating circumstances of colonial snobbism, and the imitation, grotesque even to the point of caricature, of our customs, fashions, vices, and absurdities of civilization.</p><p>Was I to have made this far journey, only to find the very thing which I had fled?</p>”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Paul Gauguin
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Gauguin, Paul. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Paul Gauguin. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin
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