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I have often neglected my appearance. I admit it, and I also admit that it is "shocking."
Letter to Theo (1880)
To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me she is just the opposite.
Letter to Theo (1884)
Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason!
Letter to Theo (1880)
Is all this illusion, imagination? I don't think so. And then one asks: My God! will it be for long, will it be for ever, will it be for eternity?
Letter to Theo (1880)
Oh, Theo, why should I change - I used to be very passive and very gentle and quiet — I'm that no longer, but then I'm no longer a child either now - sometimes I feel my own man.
Letter to Theo (1884)
Now, there are people who say to me "Why did you have anything to do with her," — that's one fact. And there are people who say to her, "Why did you have anything to do with him," — that's another fact.
Letter to Theo (1884)
Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting.
Letter to Theo (1880)
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
I do know that there is a release, the belated release.
Letter to Theo (1880)
What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.
Letter to Theo (1880)