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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 November 1881)
... it already and it will not be
news to you. I wanted to let you know that I fell so much in
love with Kee Vos this summer that I can find no other words
for it than, “It is just as if Kee Vos were the closest
person to me and I the closest person to Kee Vos,”... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(7 November 1881)
... harsh and angular tone than the former.
In the first place I must ask you if it astonishes you at
all that there is a love serious and passionate enough not to
be chilled even by many “never, no, nevers”?
I suppose far from astonishing you, this... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(18 November 1881)
... and more forcefully than last
year.
Theo, I love her, her and no other, her forever. And, and,
and, Theo, although the `no, never, ever' still "seems" to be
in full sway, there is a feeling of something like redemption
within me, and it is as if she and I... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(1-3 December 1881)
... I am not sorry I paid that visit. What must be done now? For
you know that I came back no less in love than I went, but not
because she had encouraged me; on the contrary, she made me for
a moment - or rather, for twenty-four hours - profoundly
miserable, but... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(1-2 June 1882)
... be taken in by such
sharp practices.
The way matters stand with Sien is that I am genuinely
attached to her and she to me - that she is my loyal helpmate,
who goes everywhere with me - and who is becoming more
indispensable to me by the day. I feel less passion... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(6 July 1882)
... else - there is no trickery about
it. And no matter what Sien's past may have been, I know no
other Sien than the one from last winter, than that mother in
the hospital whose hand pressed mine as we looked with tears in
our eyes at the baby for whom we had both... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(21-28 March 1883)
... acquired a few new ones since last time.
It may well seem to you that the sun is shining more
brightly and that everything has taken on a new charm. That, at
any rate, is the inevitable consequence of true love, I
believe, and it is a wonderful thing. And I also... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2nd half September 1884)
... in speaking to her the way
they did. This had no effect, at least no other than that they
told me to wait two years, which I decidedly refused to do,
saying that if there was a question of marriage, it had to be
very soon or not at all.
Well, Theo,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2nd half September 1884)
... down, to
the usual way of life.
You will understand that the whole thing upsets me greatly
when I tell you how, in that very letter I received today, she
says that “not one of her family understands her real
anguish of mind, that she tries to find distraction,... |
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