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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 1 April 1885)
... the first days; it was the same with me.
Indeed, those were days we shall not easily forget. And yet
the total impression was not terrible, only solemn. Life is not
long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of
it.
Today I painted... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh
(c. 28 February 1888)
... considering them harmful insects.
But for parallel reasons I have little confidence in the
correctness of our human concepts of a future life. We are as
little able to judge of our own metamorphoses without bias and
prematureness as the white salad grubs... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(28 May 1888)
... a year. And that's no good to anyone.
My dear fellow, the Moslem idea that death comes only when
it must - but that is a question - for my part I think that we
have no proof of any direct management from above in this
matter. On the contrary, I think there... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 9 July 1888)
... not perhaps the hardest thing there is.
For my own part, I declare I know nothing whatever about it.
But to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I
dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and
villages. Why, I ask myself, should... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(31 July 1888)
... My dear Theo,
So at last our uncle's sufferings are over. I received the
news this morning from our sister. It appears that they were
more or less expecting you to be at the funeral, so perhaps you
will indeed be there.
How short life is and how like... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(6 August 1888)
... since
Mother seemed to be expecting you. The best way to tackle a
death is to swallow the image of the illustrious dead, whatever
he was, as the best man in the best of all possible worlds,
where everything is always for the best. Which not being
contested,... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 February 1889)
... and I don't play the
false prophet.
Indeed, illness or death holds no terror for me, but happily
for us, ambition is not compatible with the callings we follow.
There are so many people in all classes of society, from the
highest to the lowest, who... |
