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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(1 May 1888)
... as bad here, but I drink very little of it.
And so it comes about that by eating hardly any solid
food and hardly drinking I am pretty weak, but my blood is getting healthier instead of
getting poisoned. Once again, it's patience I need to see... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 13 July 1888)
... of this constant mistral, not to mention that I have
spent whole days outside with a little bread and milk, since it
was too far to go back to the town every once in a while.
I have already said more than once how much the Camargue and
the... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(8 October 1888)
... - not sent)
My dear Theo,
Thanks for your letter, but I have had a very
thin time of it these days, as my money ran out on Thursday, so it was a
damnably long time till Monday noon. These four days I have
lived mainly on 23 cups of coffee,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(24 October 1888)
... to prepare the
canvas ourselves. For a while I had a
feeling that I was going to be ill, but Gauguin's arrival has so taken my mind off it
that I'm sure it will pass. I must not neglect my food for a
time, and that is all, absolutely all there... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(17 January 1889)
... francs. That barely takes us to the 10 th . I hoped
for a letter from you about the 10 th , but, this
letter did not arrive till today, January 17 th , the
time between has been a most rigorous fast, the more painful
because I cannot recover under... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(24 March 1889)
... liberty to carry
on my handicraft.
M. Rey says that instead of eating enough
and at regular times, I kept myself going on coffee and alcohol.
I admit all that, but all the same it is true that to attain
the high yellow note that I... |
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