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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(17 March 1873)
... your loving brother, Vincent.
Theo, I strongly
advise you to smoke a pipe; it is a remedy for the blues, which I
happen to have had now and then lately.
I just received your letter, many thanks. I like the photograph
very much, it is a good... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(7-8 February 1877)
... night, but joy cometh in
the morning.
It may be that
there is a time in life when one is tired of
everything and feels, perhaps correctly, as if all one does is
wrong - do you think this is a feeling one must try to avoid
and to banish, or is... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(7 March 1877)
... Theo, Theo boy, if I might only succeed in this, if that
heavy depression because everything I undertook failed, that
torrent of reproaches which I have heard and felt, if it might
be taken from me, and if there might be given to me both the
opportunity... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(16 March 1877)
... that this longing for Him will be satisfied; I too am sometimes
sad and lonely, especially when I walk around a church or
parsonage.
Let's not give in, but try to be patient and gentle. And do
not mind being eccentric; keep yourself to yourself,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(30 May 1877)
... you his greetings and thanks for it.
There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I
wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all,
and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all
this misery on myself and others.”... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(July 1880)
... your land, your fatherland, is all around. So instead of giving
in to despair I chose active melancholy, in so far as I was
capable of activity, in other words I chose the kind of
melancholy that hopes, that strives and that seeks, in
preference to the... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(24 September 1880)
... clothes, one of them in an old army cape.
Although this trip nearly killed me and I came back spent
with fatigue, with crippled feet and in more or less depressed
state of mind, I do not regret it, because I saw some
interesting things and the... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 January 1882)
... many things get
dilapidated.
And sometimes one involuntarily becomes terribly depressed,
if only for a moment, often just when one is feeling cheerful,
as I really am even now. That's what happened this morning;
these are evil hours when one... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(26 January 1882)
... agreed to keep up courage through all.
But I am so angry with myself now because I cannot do what I
should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one
were lying bound hand and foot a the bottom of a deep, dark
well, utterly helpless. Now... |
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