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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2 May 1890)
... our sister and from Mother were
very calm. Our sister wrote extremely well and described a
landscape or a view of the town in such a way that it might
have been a page out of a modern novel. I always urge her to
occupy herself with household matters rather than artistic
things, for I know that she is already too sensitive, and at
her age she would find it difficult to develop herself
artistically. I am much afraid that she also suffers from a
thwarted artistic desire, but she is so full of vitality that
she will get over it.
I have talked to M. Peyron about the situation and I told him
that it was almost impossible for me to endure my lot here, and
that not knowing at all with any clearness what line to take, I
thought it preferable to return North.
If you think well of it and if you mention a date on
which you would expect me in Paris, I will have
myself accompanied part of the way, either to Tarascon, or to
Lyons, by someone from here. Then you can wait for
me or... |
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