van Gogh's letters - unabridged and annotated
 
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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 or 4 September 1889)
... My dear Theo, I have been feeling better since I wrote you, and though I do not know if it will last, I do not want to wait any longer before writing you again. Thank you once more for the lovely etching after Rembrandt. I would very much like...		Letter from Doctor Peyron to Theo van Gogh
(3 or 4 September 1889)
... Dear Sir, I add a few words to your brother's letter to inform you that he has quite recovered from his crisis, that he has completely regained his lucidity of mind, and that he has resumed painting just as he used to do. His thoughts of suicide have disappeared,...		Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(5 or 6 September 1889)
... mean, that I must do better than before. At the moment my mind is working in an orderly way, and I feel completely normal - and when I look at my present condition, in the hope of generally having, between the attacks - if, unfortunately, it is to be expected...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(7 or 8 September 1889)
... my ability to paint for good. During the attacks I feel cowardly in the face of the pain and suffering - more cowardly than is justified - and perhaps it is this moral cowardice itself, which previously I had no desire to cure, that now makes me eat for...		Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(19 September 1889)
... and work is my only distraction. But having said this, please note that in my letter I gave a very serious reason as a motive for wishing to make a change. And I insist on repeating it - I am astonished that with the modern ideas that I have, and being...		Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 8 October 1889)
... ones. As for me, I am feeling well just now. I think M. Peyron is right when he says that I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose ...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh
(c. 20-22 October 1889)
... shall probably never see them again. That physician here has been to Paris, and went to see Theo; he told him that he did not consider me a lunatic, but that the crises I have are of an epileptic nature.		Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 20 December 1889)
... and his health suffered from it. In the beginning when I fell ill, I could not resign myself to the idea of having to go into a hospital. And at present I admit that I should have been treated even earlier, but to err is human. A French writer...		Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh
(c. 20 December 1889)
... I'm adding a word to you in great haste; it is exactly a year ago that I had that attack; I have no reason to complain too much, as things are going better with me at the moment, but it is to be feared that it will come back from time to time. And this leaves...

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