Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 22 September 1883) ... which I declared, however, to be too much for me. This was a
blind, because I then preferred not to explain to my protectors
that the whole university, the theological faculty at least,
is, in my eyes, an inexpressible mess, a breeding place of
Pharisaism.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (October 1884) ... ago, to the point of death.
Oh, I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its
Founder was sublime - I have seen through present-day
Christianity only too well. That icy coldness hypnotized even
me, in my youth - but I have taken my... |