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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 June 1882)
... this whole business of lying here ill.
Except for Sien, her mother, and for Father, I have not seen
anybody, which is indeed for the best, though the days are
rather lonesome and melancholy. Involountarily I often think
how much more gloomy and lonesome... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 October 1882)
... this is the composition .
I entirely agree with
what you say about those times now and
then when one feels dull-witted in the face of nature or when
nature seems to have stopped speaking to us.
I get the same feeling quite often... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(1 November 1882)
... it all came
fresh into my thoughts again. I had collected and mounted my
hundred studies, and when I had finished the job, a rather
melancholy feeling of “what's the use?” came over
me. But then those energetic words of Herkomer's, urging... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 11 December 1882)
... trouble is really
quite gone,
but I feel rather depressed at present, whereas at
other moments, when my work progresses well, I am quite
cheerful, and feel kind of like a soldier who isn't at home in
the guardhouse, and argues thus to... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 February 1883)
... they were on the old
Bridge of Sighs.
I have been feeling very weak lately. I am afraid I have
been overworking myself, and how miserable the
“dregs” of the work are, that depression after
overexertion. Life is then the colour of dishwater;... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(22 July 1883)
... Hague, 22 July 1883
Dear brother,
It may be
feverishness, or nerves, or something else, I
don't know, but I don't feel well. Perhaps I am thinking more
than is necessary about that expression in your letter
concerning various things; I hope... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(23 July 1883)
... Dear brother,
Since I wrote you yesterday, I could not shake off an
anxious, restless feeling, and it kept me awake last night.
It is, Shall I be able to go on or not? - that, in short, is
why I'm worrying.
You have the photographs... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(27 July 1883)
... all his life, he will be cleverer than I.
Now what shall we say about the fact that at times one feels
there is a certain fatality which makes the good turn out wrong
and the bad turn out well.
I think one may consider these thoughts partly the
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 15 September 1883)
... it makes my heart melt inside.
How much sadness
there is in life, nevertheless one must not
get melancholy, and one must seek distraction in other things,
and the right thing is to work, but there are moments when one
only finds rest in the... |
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