Life being only a fraction of a second in eternity, one should at least make it bearable.
La vie n'étant qu'une fraction de seconde dans l'éternité, on devrait au moins la rendre supportable.
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Paul Gauguin
Born in Paris in 1848, Gauguin abandoned finance to paint and sailed to Tahiti seeking a primitive paradise. His flat color planes and symbolic subjects bridge Impressionism and early modernism.
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