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I've experienced this in these crises to such a point that all the people I see then seem to me, even if I recognize them – which isn't always the case – to come from very far away and to be entirely different from what they are in reality..

— Vincent van Gogh

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The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Gauguin interests me very much as a man - very much.

I've got nature and art and poetry, and if that isn't enough, what is?

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

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