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| 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.
That I did not lack courage, I tried to prove by going to
the Borinage, where life was certainly much harder than it
would have been for me if I had become a student.
I thought that C. M., for instance, might have understood me
better, and I have all the more reason to think him
inconsiderate when I think how he has treated me with a certain
suspicion since then. Then and now I have kept
back a lot of things I might have said, but when the time comes
for me to attack him, he will feel in his conscience, whatever
he may say, that neither in the past nor at present have I ever
committed a base action towards him, so that there are no
reasonable grounds for this insult of not answering. The more
so as it would... | 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 revenge since then. How?
By worshipping the love which they, the theologians,
call sin, by respecting a whore, etc., and
not too many would-be respectable, pious ladies.
To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me
she is just the opposite.
Regards,
Ever yours, Vincent
Here you are, from Octave Mouret:
Mouret dit: “Si tu te crois fort, parce que tu refuses
d'être bête et de souffrir! Eh bien - alors tu n'es
qu'une dupe, pas davantage.”
“Tu t'amuses?”
Mouret ne parut pas comprendre tout de suite, mais lorsqu'il
se fut rappelé leurs conversations anciennes sur la
bêtise vide et l'inutile torture de... |
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