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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(2nd half June 1885)
... this as far as certain
others are concerned. I let people say of me and think of me
whatever they like and treat me just as they like -
that is their business; I am not obligated to listen to their
everlasting drivel. My parents, my teachers, Messrs. Goupil
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(2nd half June 1885)
... shaken” a second time.
I have had the very same kind of trouble for a great number
of years with a great number of people. When I protested
against it once in a while and said that I didn't deserve it,
things got worse and worse, and they wouldn't... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 11 April 1888)
... have some from here, and the
best at that. Oh! It seems to me more and more that
people are the root of everything, and though it will
always be a melancholy thought that you yourself are not in
real life, I mean, that it's more worth while to work in flesh
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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(23 June 1888)
... be very grateful if
you could send it to me. The carelessness, the lazy
happy-go-lucky ways of the people here are beyond belief; you
have trouble getting the most trifling things. That is why I'll
have to go to Marseilles someday, to get what I want there.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 February 1889)
... etc., that we are producing something.
As for the little yellow house, when I paid my rent the
landlord's agent was very kind and behaved like an
Arlésien, treating me as an equal.
So I told him that I had no need of a lease, nor of a
written... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(19 March 1889)
... I beg you to leave me quietly here.
I am convinced that the Mayor as well as the commissioner is
really rather friendly, and that they will do what they can to
settle all this. Here, except for liberty and except for many
things that I could wish otherwise,... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(29 March 1889)
... out into
the town to get things to work with. When I went home, I was
able to ascertain that the real neighbours, those whom I knew,
were not among the petitioners.
However it may be in other quarters, I saw that I still have
friends among them.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(24 April 1889)
... normally, which was not the case. So that has much softened
many of the judgements which I have too often passed with more
or less presumption on people who nevertheless were wishing me
well. Anyhow, it is certainly a pity that with me these
reflections... | Article by M. J. Brusse
(May 26 1914)
... he came back in the evening
for a few hours. For the rest,
he had no intercourse with anybody; he led an absolutely solitary
life. He took many walks all over the island, but always alone.
In the shop he hardly spoke a word. In short, he was something of a
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