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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (1 December 1883) ... very hard up, to use a mild expression. Add to this that particular torture, loneliness, and really you will no longer
be able to imagine me “well off,” either in
the present or the past.
I say loneliness, and not solitude, but that... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin (28 May 1888) ... to waste his time, it might be a good job. Being
all alone, I am suffering a little under this isolation.
So I have often thought of telling you so frankly.
You know that my brother and I greatly appreciate your
painting, and that we are most... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (5 July 1888) ... I shall read the whole of Balzac again.
When I came here I hoped it would be possible to make some
connection with art lovers here, but up to the present I
haven't made the least progress in people's affection. And
Marseilles? I don't know, but that may... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 26 July 1888) ... his letter gave me tremendous pleasure.
If you are alone in the country too long, you get stupid,
and though not yet - still this winter - I may become sterile
because of this. Now if he came, there would be no danger of
this, because there would be no... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 27 September 1888) ... He has a perfect right to, of course.
For the moment the solitude doesn't bother me, and later
we will find someone for company, and perhaps in the end more than
we want.
I believe it is not necessary to say anything unpleasant to Gauguin... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (2 May 1889) ... probably less so than taking a house again;
besides, the thought of beginning to live alone again is an
absolute horror to me.
I should like to enlist. What I am afraid of is - as my
accident is known all over town here - that they would refuse
... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (7 December 1889) ... of a house front and small figures .
I think of you and Jo very often, but feeling as though
there were an enormous distance between here and Paris and it
was years since I saw you. I hope you are well. For myself I
have nothing to complain of,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to his mother (c. 12 June 1890) ... - one grasps no more of it than
that.
For me, life may
well continue in solitude. I have never
perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as
through a glass, darkly.
And yet there is good reason why my work is sometimes... |