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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2nd half September 1884)
... be best for her, separation or
not.
Of course I shall always remain her friend, mutually
we are perhaps too much attached to each other.
I spent almost the whole day with her then.
I went to see Rappard for a moment, but he wasn't in
town.
Last week I made the sketch for the last of the six pictures
for Hermans.
Wood-gatherers in the snow, so he has all six of them to
copy; when he has finished this one and they are thoroughly
dry, I shall work them up into pictures. I wish you could see
all six of them together in the panels for which they are
destined. His copies are very correct as to the drawing, but I
think his colour is bad; and as for mine, the warm grey, often
bituminous, tone in which I kept the whole thing harmonizes
with the woodwork and the style of the room. Goodbye.
You should not have the impression that what you write,
“that it is evident she is like an angel of
patience,” is correct.
This is decidedly not... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(October 1884)
... - that's another fact.
Apart from that, both she and I have grief enough and
trouble enough, but as for regrets - neither of us have any.
Look here - I believe without question, or have the certain
knowledge, that she loves me. I believe without question, or
have the certain knowledge, that I love her. It has been
sincerely meant. But has it also been foolish, etc?
Perhaps, if you like - but aren't the wise ones,
those who never do anything foolish, even more foolish in my
eyes than I am in theirs? That's my reply to your
argument and to other people's arguments. I say all this simply
by way of explanation, not out of ill-will or
spite.
You say that you like Octave Mouret, you say
that you are like him. I've read the second volume too, since
last year, and like him much better in that than I did in the
first. The other day I heard it said that `Au Bonheur des
dames' would not add greatly to Zola's reputation. I consider
it contains... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(November 1884)
... put her own money into the
business.
The simple fact is that if she and I choose to love each
other, if we are attached to each other, which we have been for
a long time for that matter, we are doing no harm which
people have a right to reproach either one of us with. And in
my eyes it is absurd that people should feel obliged to bother
their heads about it - with the idea that it is in my interest
or hers.
This meant doing a bad turn.
It may be that they all did this with the best of
intentions, but…There was Louis Begemann; he too had
objections, but he behaved and went on behaving in such a way
that she as well as I could talk things over with him, and its
not turning out worse was due to his being humane and
calm, so that he could help when the thing I knew about
happened, whereas the others only hindered. And we were
quite of one mind as to the measures that had to be taken
then.
As a matter of fact, I had already warned... |
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