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relate to Attitude - Mother
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Nuenen, mid November 1885
"If necessary I am willing to go to Doctor Van der Loo; however, you know that doctors do not always tell everything, particularly in doubtful cases. Also you should understand that that slight clouding of her mind I told you about will presumably recur, a thing that many people are afflicted with as they get older. At any rate, I think it a practical idea not to let her be present at the bustle of..."
Antwerp, c. 15 December 1885
"As I have received a letter from Mother asking me to write her and informing me that she has asked you to give her my address, will you let them know that I am not going to write, which for that matter I told them quite simply when I went away. You will understand that things like what happened in March are decisive. Then I left the house, from which may be inferred as a matter of course that they..."
Arles, 6 August 1888
"If the kind old mother of a family, with ideas that are pretty well limited and tortured by the Christian system, is to be immortal as she believes, and seriously too - and I for one do not gainsay it - why should a consumptive or neurotic cab horse like Delacroix and de Goncourt, with broad ideas, be any less immortal?"
Saint-Rémy, 2 July 1889
"But it is to let you see how firm and regular the handwriting is, remarkable enough when you think that what she says is really true, that she is a mother of almost seventy. And just as you already wrote me, and our sister too, that she seems to have grown younger, I see it myself in this clear handwriting and the very clear logic in what she writes, and the simplicity with which she appreciates f..."
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