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Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh
Age: 37 †
Born: 1853
Born: March 30
Died: 1890
Died: July 29
Botanical Illustrator
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Brooklyn
New York
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And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.
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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
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Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
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But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
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