| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 24518 |
| QUOTATION: | The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us.... Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), French artist. Intimate Journals, p. 143, trans. by Van Wyck Brooks (1923, repr. 1930). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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