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It is always the same: a struggle between making love and working. Together, that is almost impossible - at least for me; struggle between being a woman and creating art. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

— Charley Toorop

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In a letter to her friend, the poet Henny Marsman, c. Summer of 1924, undated; KB The Hague. | In this letter Charley broke the affair with Marsman

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I don't believe you can really give yourself to a man, you can sympathize with him, if you have your own strong creative life, which brings your own philosophy of life.

I've nailed them to the cross.

.Now nicely going on to work [painting] and much more free, and in particular more flowing. I hope to grow away from that rigid stuff. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

In particular, no principles - working - and purifying our own views. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

Do you remember how beautiful it was, and that silly Mondrian and those silly Buddha positions right in the middle at the beach [of Domburg, Zeeland, in 1906] (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

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