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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 July 1883)
... Hague, 22 July 1883
Dear brother,
It may be
feverishness, or nerves, or something else, I
don't know, but I don't feel well. Perhaps I am thinking more
than is necessary about that expression in your letter
concerning various things; I hope... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(23 July 1883)
... Dear brother,
Since I wrote you yesterday, I could not shake off an
anxious, restless feeling, and it kept me awake last night.
It is, Shall I be able to go on or not? - that, in short, is
why I'm worrying.
You have the photographs... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(27 July 1883)
... all his life, he will be cleverer than I.
Now what shall we say about the fact that at times one feels
there is a certain fatality which makes the good turn out wrong
and the bad turn out well.
I think one may consider these thoughts partly the
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 15 September 1883)
... it makes my heart melt inside.
How much sadness
there is in life, nevertheless one must not
get melancholy, and one must seek distraction in other things,
and the right thing is to work, but there are moments when one
only finds rest in the... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 26 September 1883)
...
As I feel the need to speak out frankly, I cannot hide from
you that I am overcome by a feeling of great anxiety,
depression, a je ne sais quoi of discouragement and despair
more than I can tell. And if I cannot find comfort, it will be
too overwhelming.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 27 September 1883)
... was better again, so I went out to
paint. But it was impossible, I was missing four or five
colours, and I came home so miserable. I am sorry to have
risked myself so far without a sufficient supply. I know from
experience how it ends when one undertakes... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 3 October 1883)
... For I had had paint sent from Furnée, as I thought on
the subject like you wrote in your letter, that by absorbing
myself in my work, and quite losing myself in it, my mood would
change, and it has already greatly improved.
But at times... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(12 October 1883)
... is - your place no longer knows
you.
I felt too melancholy
to try to redress things, and I do not
remember ever having been in a mood to speak about it to
anybody the way I do to you now. Because, to my surprise, in
your letter I read... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 29-2 Oct-Nov 1883)
... do that,
no more than commit suicide.
I too have my moments of deep melancholy, but I say again,
both you and I ought to regard the idea of disappearing or
making oneself scarce as becoming neither you nor me.
And notwithstanding all, one... |
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