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Paul Gauguin Quotes: If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.
         

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.


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