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14 letters
relate to Feelings - despair
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Cuesmes, mid August 1879
"If ever I came to believe seriously that I was being a nuisance or a burden to you or those at home, of no use to anyone, and were obliged to look upo..."
The Hague, c. 15-27 April 1882
"Theo, I am a man with faults and errors and passions, but I don't think I ever tried to deprive anyone of his bread or his friends. I have sometimes f..."
The Hague, 30 May 1882
"But not having up to now received any letter of yours since that of May 12th, I have nothing to pay him his twelve guilders and 50 c. with. The man wi..."
The Hague, 22 July 1883
"Thanks for your letter, thanks for the enclosure, though I cannot repress a feeling of sadness at your saying, “I can give you little hope for the f..."
The Hague, 22 July 1883
"And now I thought, I am sorry that I didn't fall ill and die in the Borinage that time, instead of taking up painting, for I am only a burden to you. ..." "The fact is, brother, that the general state of affairs oppressed me more than I could bear, and I am telling you my thoughts. I only wish you would c..."
Drenthe, c. 26 September 1883
"Oh, boy, I am so melancholy - I am in a splendid country, I want to work, I absolutely need it - at the same time, I am absolutely at a loss as to how..."
Arles, c. 14 August 1888
"It is a gloomy enough prospect to have to say to myself that perhaps the painting I am doing will never be of any value whatever. If it was worth what..."
Arles, c. 29 August 1888
"I have heaps of ideas for my work, and if I go on with figure painting very industriously, I may possibly find more. But what's the use? Sometimes I f..."
Arles, 30 April 1889
"That was a blow to me, since not only the studio had come to grief, but even the studies that would have been reminders of it. It is all so final, and..."
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